Today's Thomas Mann is a victim of his own high reputation: in a word, lofty, in another, forbidding. There's never been a dip in esteem for Mann, the German author who won the Nobel Prize in ...

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.One of the greatest writers of the 20th ...

In a new anthology translated by Damion Searls, THOMAS MANN: NEW SELECTED STORIES (252 pp., Liveright, $30), the work is called “Chaotic World and Childhood Sorrow. ...

The Thomas Mann House, which is now a museum, survived the Palisades fire but remains closed because of smoke damage. Mann was a German Nobel laureate who fled Nazi Germany.

When Thomas Mann wrote "The Magic Mountain," he had his own political transformation in mind. He put the first lines on paper in 1913 and finished the work 12 years later — interrupted by the ...

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.One of the greatest writers of the 20th ...