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Arcana Europa could be literally translated as the “Mysteries of Europe.” In a broad sense, the phrase is a fitting catch-all for the concerns and purview of our new publishing company. A brief excursion into the etymologies and deeper associations of these two words may serve to illuminate some of the reasons why this is so. Arcana is the plural form of classical Latin arcanum, which referred to something “secret, concealed, private, trustworthy,” or, in religious contexts, a “sacred mystery” (compare the related English adjective arcane, “known or understood by only a few”). The Latin word has its roots in...

Arcana Europa (Æ) will showcase the publishing projects of editors Michael Moynihan and Joshua Buckley, and will provide a home for these projects in the future. The Æ imprint will also be responsible for publishing the groundbreaking and influential journal TYR, which is now in its fifteenth year. A new edition of the journal will appear in the next few months, and will feature articles by Joscelyn Godwin, Richard Rudgley, Nigel Pennick, Stephen Flowers, Jack Donovan, Wolf D. Storl, and other dynamic and important contributors. As with TYR, Æ titles will be characterized by the highest standards of quality and...

  What was the original impulse behind the Northern Dawn project? Do you feel like other scholars have been hesitant to synthesize the Germanic tradition into a coherent historical narrative? For a long time there have been efforts to “revive” old Germanic cultural and religious material. This effort has generally lacked both the historical context and theoretical basis for the movement to understand its own deep roots. My idea for The Northern Dawn was to provide these things for the movement. It should be understood that the idea of reviving—or what I prefer to call reawakening—these eternal values is something...

Excerpt from the "Introduction" to Remnants of a Season: The Collected Poems of Robert N. Taylor (Dominion / Ultra) Robert N. Taylor was born in 1945 and grew up in a working-class area on the south side of Chicago. His father, George Ellis Taylor, encouraged him to read and shared with his son his own enthusiasm for European writers like Oswald Spengler and—most importantly— Friedrich Nietzsche. His appetite for books opened up a world much bigger than the narrow parochial boundaries of his neighborhood, but he was never a “bookish” kid. When he wasn’t reading he was lifting weights or hardening...