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Martin Mosebach
Martin Mosebach’s novel What Was Before opens with a young couple enjoying a moment of carefree intimacy. Then the young woman, turning slightly more serious, asks her lover that fateful…
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Dr Peter Kwasniewski (University of Cambridge)
Peter Kwasniewski offers a lively account of the noble beauty and transcendent holiness of the traditional Roman liturgy, which humbles us before the mystery of God, stirs us with its…
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First published in 2003, The Heresy of Formlessness is already a modern classic, unique for its melding of poetic shimmer and keen observation. Martin Mosebach offers up a compelling defense…
In these essays, award-winning German novelist Martin Mosebach bears witness to the perennially subversive nature of full-blooded Catholicism. Despite the sins and escapades of her members, the Church still makes…
Brigitte Schermuly
The painter Peter Schermuly (1927-2007) created works of an artful reality whose meticulously detailed concreteness is the expression of pure painting. This catalogue raisonne makes accessible his entire oeuvre of…
Originally published under the title Die 21: eine Reise ins Land der Koptischen Martyrer. Copyright A 2018 by Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, Reinbek bei Hamburg, Germany –Copyright page.
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With contributions from Leo Darroch, Fr. Gabriel Diaz-Patri, Philippe Maxence, Sebastian Morello, Matthew Schellhorn, and Erik TonningWhat do Evelyn Waugh, Lanzo Del Vasto, Nancy Mitford, F.R. Leavis, Agatha Christi, Yehudi…
Originally published under the title Die 21: Eine Reise ins Land der Koptischen Martyrer. Copyright A 2018 by Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, Reinbek bei Hamburg, Germany. English translation copyright A 2018…
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With contributions from Leo Darroch, Fr. Gabriel Diaz-Patri, Philippe Maxence, Sebastian Morello, Matthew Schellhorn, and Erik Tonning
What do Evelyn Waugh, Lanzo Del Vasto, Nancy Mitford, F.R. Leavis, Agatha Christi…
Heimito Von Doderer
Regarded by many as the most important Austrian novel of its era, Heimito von Doderer's The Demons is a sweeping portrayal of Viennese society on the cusp of catastrophic and…
Adventure through the princely Thurn und Taxis estate, an enchanted palace where 1,000 years of history meets a thoroughly modern family.