JOSEPH AND HIS BROTHERS—Thomas Mann—Knopf ($2.50). Not until a man is dead and buried can he safely be called great. Death and its historical illusion then lend the word some meaning, which it lacks ...

For four years after Hitler came to power, Nobel Prizewinner Thomas Mann, greatest of exiled German writers, evaded questioners who pressed him for his opinion of fascism in Germany. When he visited ...

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 ...

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 ...

“The task of a writer,” Thomas Mann (1875-1955) said, “consists in being able to make something out of an idea.” He also said, “A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for ...

Try this short quiz to see how many locations you remember from your reading. By J. D. Biersdorfer A new novel about Thomas Mann’s longstanding American translator portrays a woman ahead of her time ...