What can we still learn from the The Magic Mountain? Hans Castorp, the protagonist of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, famously spends seven years at a tuberculosis sanatorium in Davos, Switzerland, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Streaming platforms for The Magic Mountain: Thomas Mann's Emblematic Novel haven’t been announced yet. Check back soon for updates on where you can watch it online.

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 ...

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 ...

“The physician assured me that I should be acting wisely to remain there for six months and take the cure. If I had followed his advice, who knows, I might still be there! I wrote The Magic Mountain ...