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    -WIKIPEDIA: Thomas Mann
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    -INDEX: Thomas Mann (Yale Review)
    -ESSAY: Brother Hitler (Thomas Mann, 1939, Esquire)
    -ETEXT: Essays of Three Decades (Thomas Mann)[pdf]
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    -PODCAST: THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain (2): life's lascivious form (John Pistelli, Jan 23, 2026, Grand Hotel Abyss)
    -PODCAST: THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain (3): a poem of humankind (John Pistelli, Jan 30, 2026, Grand Hotel Abyss)
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    -ESSAY: What Went Wrong When Susan Sontag Met Thomas Mann?: An eyewitness recalls the fraught encounter between a precocious American college student and a titan of German literature. (Alex Ross, March 14, 2026, The New Yorker)
    -ESSAY: Mann’s ‘Magic Mountain’: l’amour et la mort (Jeffrey Meyers, 11/30/25, The Article)
    -ESSAY: Aschenbach’s Last Journey (Lesley Chamberlain, October 2025, Dublin Review of Books)
    -ESSAY: Climbing ‘The Magic Mountain’ today: Thomas Mann’s novel is an antidote to nihilism (Morten Høi Jensen, 25 Oct 5, UnHerd)
    -ESSAY: Thomas Mann’s cathedrals in prose (Morten Høi Jensen, 6/06/25, Englesberg Ideas)
    -ESSAY: Mannhood: The Coming Revival of Democracy (Morten Høi Jensen, March 2025, Liberties)
    -ESSAY: Mann and his musical demons: Thomas Mann was all too aware of the ties between music and Nazi ideology (Wolfgang Schneider, 7/18/07, Sign and Sight)
    -ESSAY: The Political Journey of Thomas Mann: How a convert to liberalism retained the wisdom of a conservative (Ed Simon, 6/05/25, Hedgehog Review)
    -ESSAY: Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man (Eskil Elling, 12/19/21, The Point)
    -ESSAY: Under a Spell Everlasting: Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain, published a century ago, tells of a world unable to free itself from the cataclysm of war (Samantha Rose Hill, December 2, 2024, American Scholar)
    -ESSAY: Thomas Mann and the European disease of nihilism: The vicious battle of ideas behind the continent's World Wars has migrated East. (Tanjil Rashid, 11/26/24, New Statesman)
    -ESSAY: Thomas Mann's 'Magic Mountain' still resonates 100 years on: A divided society, existential fears and the specter of war: Thomas Mann's novel "The Magic Mountain" is still frighteningly relevant, a century after its first publication. (Suzanne Cords, 11/26/24, Deutsche Welle)
    -ESSAY: The Magic Mountain Saved My Life: When I was young and adrift, Thomas Mann’s novel gave me a sense of purpose. Today, its vision is startlingly relevant. (George Packer, December 2024, The Atlantic)
    -ESSAY: The Apostle of Love: How Thomas Mann discovered sensual education in The Magic Mountain (Merve Emre, November 2024, Yale Review)
    -ESSAY: Thomas Mann predicted the New World Order: He saw Davos in his Magic Mountain (Boyd Tonkin, 11/08/24, UnHerd)
    -ESSAY: The life and Lives of Thomas Mann (Jeffrey Meyers, The Article)
    -ESSAY: The Art of Distance: Story and Style Now (John Pistelli, 07/15/24, Grand Hotel Abyss)
    -ESSAY: My journey around Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain: He is ideal reading for the ecstatic diseased (Jeremy Clarke, January 7, 2023, Spectator)
    -ESSAY: Cholera in Thomas Mann’s ‘Death in Venice’ (Jeffrey Meyers, The Article)
    -INTERVIEW: The Eternal Return of Fascism: A Conversation with Rob Riemen (Natasha Lennard, 1/15/23, LA Review of Books)
    -ESSAY: Thomas Mann, the humorous German: comedy in ‘Buddenbrooks’ (Jeffrey Meyers, 12/18/22, The Article)
    -REVIEW ESSAY: Thomas Mann’s Brush with Darkness: How the German novelist’s tormented conservative manifesto led to his later modernist masterpieces. (Alex Ross, January 17, 2022, The New Yorker)
    -ESSAY: Thomas Mann’s Dilemma: The great novelist’s defense of the nonpolitical continues to resonate. (Adam Kirsch, Autumn 2021m City Journal)
    -ESSAY: Against Politics: Communists and fascists are very often the same unpleasant people, wrote Thomas Mann—literary champion of the German bourgeois. He was right. (DAVID MIKICS, JUNE 03, 2021, Tablet)
    -ESSAY: Mannhood: When Thomas Mann and Stefan Zweig Had Lunch Together (Morten Høi Jensen, January 2025, Liberties)
    -ESSAY: In Today's Terror, An Old Allegory Gets a New Life: Has Abu Musab al-Zarqawi been reading Thomas Mann? (BRET STEPHENS, August 19, 2005, Opinion Journal)
    -ESSAY: The Political Philosophies in The Magic Mountain: A World Without God (Lee Trepanier, Jul 20, 2025, Then Again)
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    -REVIEW: of MANN’S MAGIC MOUNTAIN by Karolina Watroba (Ian Ellison, TLS)
    -REVIEW: of Thomas Mann: New and Selected Stories By Thomas Mann (Joshua Hren, University Bookman)
    -REVIEW: of The Master of Contradictions by Morten Høi Jensen: how Thomas Mann wrote The Magic Mountain: A vivid account of the creation of one of literary modernism’s greatest achievements (Chris Power, 31 Dec 2025, The Guardian)
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    -REVIEW ESSAY: Criminally Overrated: Death in Venice (Alan Zilberman, 8/01/24, Spectrum Culture)
    -ESSAY: “Death in Venice”: The Problem of Romantic Reaction (Eva Brann, June 24th, 2019, Imaginative Conservative)
    -REVIEW: Fatherland review – Sandra Hüller brings a bayonet of intelligence to Pawel Pawlikowski’s taut return: Cannes film festival: Hanns Zischler stars as Thomas Mann on his 1949 tour of Germany, contending with political barbs, personal tragedy and his daughter, played by an extraordinary Hüller (Peter Bradshaw, 14 May 2026, The Guardian)
    -REVIEW: Fatherland – first-look review (David Jenkins, 5/14/26, Little White Lies)
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