It was the birthplace of the liberal tradition, but also the incubator for Nazism – what can this historic city tell us about democracy?

In a farewell post, Alexander Faludy discusses this year’s Booker prize-winner.

Maria Theresa, Habsburg empress, created the modern European state. To ponder her reign is to ask what the Enlightenment was — and is. Be careful with your nostalgias.

Alexander Faludy looks at a Tolkien introduction

Alexander Faludy reviews the Museum of Fine Arts' Munkácsy exhibition ending on 30 March

From Tudor to Stuart: The Regime Change from Elizabeth I to James I by Susan Doran Oxford University Press, £30, 646 pagesOver the last two years Britons have slowly adjusted to being Carolingians rather than Elizabethans. Challenging as that may hav

Alexander Faludy finds stimulus for devotion in the works of El Greco