Thomas Allan Mann was a key figure behind the Detroit Mass Mob, which revitalized attendance at historic Catholic churches in the area. He died at 71 on Feb. 24. A memorial Mass will be held on May 4 ...

One of the lingering mysteries about the German writer Thomas Mann is how there could have been any lingering mystery about his repressed –make that sublimated– sexual desire for beautiful young men.

What can we still learn from the The Magic Mountain? Susan Bernofsky Hans Castorp, the protagonist of Thomas Mann’s The Magic ...

A new novel about Thomas Mann’s longstanding American translator portrays a woman ahead of her time and, despite her shortcomings, important to leading Mann to a Nobel Prize. By Celia McGee Among the ...

Author Thomas Mann's family - Germany's Kennedys - fascinates to this day. Biographer Tilmann Lahme tells DW why they became beacons of the struggle against Hitler - and foreshadowed the selfie era.

Can a novel about historical figures make them visible in ways that a biography cannot? Colm Tóibín is hardly the first novelist to explore this question, but he is one of the more powerful, and ...

Frederic Spotts chronicles all the ways Klaus attempted to better his father, but never quite managed it in Cursed Legacy You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have ...