Europe

Patrick MacGill was a self-taught polymath, a celebrated poet and fiction-writer. He was also my grandfather.

Denmark is a historical anomaly: the world’s first socialist monarchy.

Poland shows how Catholicism and liberal democracy are not at odds.

In 'We Don’t Know Ourselves,' Fintan O’Toole examines the fitful way in which Ireland eventually embraced a secular liberal modernity.

Timothy Garton Ash’s new book blends history and memoir to provide political analysis of postwar Europe and the United States' role in the region.