Biography & Memoir

This thrilling memoir documents the early life of Russian journalist and human rights activist Alexander Podrabinek, as he and other dissidents fearlessly fought against the Soviet Union.Between Prison...

This riveting book documents Bishop Hanna's twenty-eight days in captivity in Iraq as he struggles through threats, torture, and doubt.

International best-selling author and theologian Tomáš Halík shares for the first time the dramatic story of his life as a secretly ordained priest in Communist Czechoslovakia.Born in Prague in 1948,...

Discover the true story of the Jesuit priest, explorer, geologist, and photographer who brought the wilds of Alaska—and his Catholic faith—to the American public.In The Glacier Priest, Josh McMullen...

The first full-length critical biography and theological analysis of Wang Mingdao, the spiritual father of China’s House Church Movement.

"Alasdair MacIntyre: An Intellectual Biography by Émile Perreau-Saussine seeks to defend the Scottish philosopher’s standing as one of the most profound theorists of capitalist modernity on either side of the Atlantic. . . . For Perreau-Saussine, the central intellectual problems with which MacIntyre was concerned were the moral vacuity of liberalism and Stalinism, the possibility of the common good and collective reasonings in an individualistic age, and the secularization of politics. Despite his explicit commitment to not sullying himself with trivial matters, along the way we do learn a great deal about MacIntyre’s life and how it informed his unique blend of Marxist-Catholic Scholasticism." —Jacobin

“This book was a labor of love, and I hope my readers can share my pleasure in, once again, telling the stories of a place dear to us all.” —Father “Monk” Malloy, from the introductionThis...

“[This] memoir chronicles a personal journey that became public with [Greg] Bourke at the forefront of the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court case, Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. Through it all, Bourke and his longtime partner and now husband, Michael De Leon, have remained active members of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Louisville, Kentucky, raising their two adopted children in the parish.” —Notre Dame Magazine

This engaging study provides new perspectives on the lives and work of two major figures in American poetry and publishing in the second half of the twentieth century: Robert Giroux (1914–2008), editor-in-chief...

Shabtai Shavit, director of the Mossad from 1989 to 1996, is one of the most influential leaders to shape the recent history of the State of Israel. In this exciting and engaging book, Shavit combines...