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 ...

Thomas Mann published “The Magic Mountain” a century ago, in November 1924, and five years later won the Nobel Prize. One of the greatest novels ever written, it is an intellectual feast with an ...

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 ...

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 ...

Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney This month, Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain turns 100. One of the 20th century’s towering literary ...

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 ...