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 ...

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 ...

In March 1938, novelist and author Thomas Mann — exiled from his home country Germany — visited Northwestern as the first stop of a nationwide lecture tour about the dangers of fascism, calling for ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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 ...

You don’t have to be a Thomas Mann fan to be gripped by the account of his life that author Colm Tóibín (“The Master,” “Brooklyn”) delivers in his new novel, “The Magician.” The prose of the German ...

“Out of this worldwide festival of death, this ugly rutting fever that inflames the rainy evening sky all around—will love someday rise up out of this, too?” The bourgeois, anti-fascist Thomas Mann is ...

Thomas Mann with his wife Katia, right, and their daughter, Erika, as they arrive in New York in 1939. During his exile at Princeton, Mann continued to write fiction but also emerged as one of the ...