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Brian Thomas Mann, 36, is charged with the attempted murder of his 25-year-old wife Hannah.
Is modern Germany and Europe, some wonder, heading back to the Zauberberg (Magic Mountain)? Mann’s 1924 novel tells of a healthy young engineer, Hans Castorp, who visits a friend in a Davos ...
Thomas Mann, a Nobel laureate and literary giant, fled Germany in the 1930s, later using his voice to condemn the Nazi regime through essays and BBC broadcasts. His early success with ...
A Nobel prize laureate, literary exile and conscience of a nation in the wake of Nazi rule, Thomas Mann remains a cultural icon 150 years since his birth.
Six months after the devastating fires in Los Angeles, the Thomas Mann House in Pacific Palisades will resume its regular activities on Friday, June 6, 2025.
Thomas Allan Mann, co-founder of Detroit Mass Mob, died at 72 last week. A memorial Mass will be held in Detroit on May 4.
Just how gay is “Death in Venice”? A homoerotic "master text" or a cryptic parable of art, arrogance and self-deception? A fresh translation helps pry Thomas Mann's classic from too-literal ...
It provides not only a feminist reworking of Mann’s themes, but a trip into the mythic and phantasmagorical, with a detour into murder mystery thrown in for good measure. Olga Tokarczuk.
A divided society, existential fears and the specter of war: Thomas Mann's novel "The Magic Mountain" is still frighteningly relevant a century after its first publication.
Thomas Mann and the European disease of nihilism The vicious battle of ideas behind the continent's World Wars has migrated East. By Tanjil Rashid Snow capped mountains in Davos, Switzerland. Photo by ...
When I was young and adrift, Thomas Mann’s novel gave me a sense of purpose. Today, its vision is startlingly relevant.
Brookings Institution The Brookings Institution, often simply called Brookings, is an American research group founded in 1916. Located on Think Tank Row in Washington, D.C., the organization ...