Celebrating the life of Nobel laureate Thomas Mann on his 150th birth anniversary. Explore his family history, political ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Benno Herz, Claudia Gordon and Oliver Hartmann inside the Thomas Mann House in Pacific Palisades. The three help maintain the ...

On a trip to Venice, staying in a luxury hotel, he catches sight of a young and strikingly beautiful Polish boy, Tadzio. The writer's admiration darkens into an intense obsession. Even when an ...

Six months after the devastating fires in Los Angeles, the Thomas Mann House in Pacific Palisades will resume its regular activities on Friday, June 6, 2025. The reopening will be marked by a special ...

On The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of “The Magic Mountain,” by Morten Høi Jensen. Can politics and aesthetics be pried apart? Can an infatuation with death be redirected ...

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 ...

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 ...

On the morning of the Palisades fire, Claudia Gordon quickly accepted that there was only so much she could do to save everything under her watch. She helps manage the Pacific Palisades homes once ...