The rooms are comfortable, the view is magnificent, the food delicious. Wrapped in wool blankets, the well-heeled guests of a sanatorium spend their days resting on the balconies. Welcome to the ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. “We live in an age of human self-contempt,” George Packer wrote this week. In an essay ...

Høi Jensen shows that “The Magic Mountain is a tale of two Thomas Manns” without ever obscuring that it is also a great deal ...

I was reading Thomas Mann’s masterpiece, The Magic Mountain, when I suddenly realized that it is almost eerily relevant to our current pandemic. As time goes on, writers will inevitably provide us and ...

This talk will show how Thomas Mann's landmark German modernist novel "Der Zauberberg" ("The Magic Mountain", 1924) has developed something of a cult following among non-academic readers around the ...

Thomas Mann’s reputation as a difficult, ponderous, heavyweight novelist, and the erudite allusions, serious subject matter, and philosophical themes of The Magic Mountain (1924) have led readers to ...

Novelists have been retelling existing tales for almost as long as they have been writing novels, so it’s unsurprising that Olga Tokarczuk followed up her Brobdingnagian epic “The Books of Jacob” by ...