On Waiting
Schweizer turns an apparently insignificant experience — waiting — into an opportunity to reflect on what it really means to live in time. In a society that values speed, productivity, and immediate...
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A Sketch of My Life
Thomas Mann (1875–1955) wrote several autobiographical essays, and this is one of them. Written in 1929 on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Prize, it offers an initial assessment of his life and...
1929: The Inside Story of The Greatest Crash in Wall Street History
The narrative covers the events leading up to the 1929 stock market crash and its consequences. The book explores several important themes, including the role of the Federal Reserve’s lending policies and...
Cold Crematorium: Reporting from Auschwitz
Debreczeni (1905–1978) was a prominent Hungarian writer and journalist who spent most of his life in Yugoslavia. The book, halfway between memoir and chronicle, begins with his arrival at Auschwitz in 1944...
A Letter Addressed to His Grace the Duke of Norfolk
Newman has the gift of suggesting ideas of lasting value and full relevance to the modern world, in the context of questions that enriched the intellectual and doctrinal debate of his time. Letter to the...
Magnifica Humanitas
Magnifica Humanitas is the first encyclical of Pope Leo XIV. In it, he reflects on the dignity of the human person, created by God and called to live in truth, love, and fraternity. The Pope affirms that...
Nefertiti Lived Here
Mary Chubb (1903–2003) was an English writer and archaeologist. The book is a chronicle of an archaeological campaign funded by the Egypt Exploration Society, which took place between November 1930 and...
The Decadent Society
Douthat puts forward a provocative thesis: the wealthiest and most technologically advanced Western societies have entered a period of decline precisely because they have been too successful and have lost...
Pope Leo XIV
“The American Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, 69, Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops of the Holy See, is the new Pope, taking the name Leo XIV. Elected by the cardinals on the fourth ballot of the...
The Life of Saint Benedict
Biography of Saint Benedict of Nursia (c. 480–547). It is the second book of the author’s Dialogues; perhaps the oldest and most reliable source on the life of the patriarch of Western monasticism.
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