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 ...

Høi Jensen shows that “The Magic Mountain is a tale of two Thomas Manns” without ever obscuring that it is also a great deal ...

Thomas Mann, from behind, 1930. Hans Castorp, the protagonist of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, famously spends seven years at a tuberculosis sanatorium in Davos, Switzerland, instead of the three ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...