“I am an American,” Thomas Mann said during a radio interview in 1940. If he sounded relieved, it was because he was: He had been in limbo for years. Mann left Germany in 1933, and the Nazi government ...

Thomas Mann openly converted from a chauvinistic rejection of all politics in Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man (1918) to ...

In March 1938, novelist and author Thomas Mann — exiled from his home country Germany — visited Northwestern as the first stop of a nationwide lecture tour about the dangers of fascism, calling for ...

Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man, Thomas Mann’s agonized 500-page tract on the rights and wrongs of World War I, appeared in September 1918, just weeks before the war ended in a German defeat. In the ...

THOMAS MANN has written his Faust. Its hero is an artist and the Devil is a German— “German to the core.” This use of the legend recalls a curious article of Mann’s, published in a German-language ...

Without once mentioning him by name, Thomas Mann, the author, tonight delivered a bitter attack on the Chancellor Hitler who proscribed his books in Germany and stripped him of German citizenship.

“The task of a writer,” Thomas Mann (1875-1955) said, “consists in being able to make something out of an idea.” He also said, “A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for ...

“Out of this worldwide festival of death, this ugly rutting fever that inflames the rainy evening sky all around—will love someday rise up out of this, too?” The bourgeois, anti-fascist Thomas Mann is ...

For 10 years between 1942 and 1952, Thomas Mann, the Nobel Prize-winning German author, lived in a Pacific Palisades home that he had built while he and his family were exiled from their native ...

You don’t have to be a Thomas Mann fan to be gripped by the account of his life that author Colm Tóibín (“The Master,” “Brooklyn”) delivers in his new novel, “The Magician.” The prose of the German ...

Among the disappointments of Colm Toíbín’s new novel, “The Magician,” which imagines the life of Thomas Mann, is any real sense of the richly extravagant artistic life of the émigré community in 1940s ...

Thomas Mann with his wife Katia, right, and their daughter, Erika, as they arrive in New York in 1939. During his exile at Princeton, Mann continued to write fiction but also emerged as one of the ...