Time runs, the century winds to its close, and the great narrative works of the European imagination it gave birth to—the great works of Proust, Mann, Kafka—which one grew up with, and grew up on, in ...

THE story of Joseph, told in the Book of Genesis for all times and all peoples, contains that which makes it bear retelling for every new age. We are fortunate in that it is no lesser poet than the ...

Today's Thomas Mann is a victim of his own high reputation: in a word, lofty, in another, forbidding. There's never been a dip in esteem for Mann, the German author who won the Nobel Prize in ...

The German television director Heinrich Breloer has made a series of three television programmes examining the history of Germany’s most celebrated literary family—the Manns. No other family so ...

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 ...