The Magic Mountain

Time to Revive Thomas Mann

Richard C. Morais | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Literature, Nobel Prize, Hitler, The Magic Mountain, Switzerland, Thomas Mann, Novel, The Hundred-Foot Journey, Books News
Richard C. Morais

I had to grow up before I could read Thomas Mann. Several times in the course of my life I picked up The Magic Mountain, only to find out I did not have the stamina to complete the book.

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"War and Peace" Doesn't Have To Be Hard

Salon | Laura Miller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Don Quixote, Tolstoy, The Magic Mountain, Books, Audiobooks, Summer Reading, War and Peace, Reading, Thomas Mann, Books News

Many people swear that, come summer, they'll finally get around to reading a classic work of literature they missed during their student years; "War a...

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Ten Books That Influenced Me: In a Blink

Lea Lane | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Good Life, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Relationships, The Diary of a Young Girl, Atonement, Thomas Mann, Great Reads, Babar, The Diary of Anne Frank, Ian McEwan, The Magic Mountain, Solo Traveler, Anne Frank, Robert Persig, Reading, Harold Robbins, John Updike, Authors, Bestsellers, Books News
Lea Lane

When I got my MA in English Lit I had to read more than 100 great works. I was 22, and didn't have much of an idea about the great themes or historical context. I was overwhelmed and pretty clueless. But the following books changed my life

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Coping With Book Guilt in London

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jonathan Wild, The Vicar of Wakefield, Henry Pordes Books, Curzon Street, Book Collecting, Phineas Redux, Oxfam, Henry Fielding, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Mann, Charing Cross Road, C. P. Snow, The Magic Mountain, G. Heywood Hill, Phineas Finn, The Black Album, London Bookstores, Book Guilt, Hanif Kureishi, The New Men, Oliver Goldsmith, Books News
David Finkle

I love books, but they foment torrents of guilt in me. I feel guilty about: the amount of money spent on them; the space they take up; the ones that rest unread while more come in as competition.

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Dish After Davos: Magic and The Mountains

Susan Sawyers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Al Gore, Howard Dean, Davos, Dan Quayle, The Magic Mountain, Water Crisis, George Soros, Laura Tyson, Bono, Davos 2008, Wold Economic Forum, Business News
Susan Sawyers

Much like Thomas Mann's main character in The Magic Mountain, written in Davos, I was an "ordinary [wo]man," amongst a sea of world leaders and power brokers. This convergence of knowledge and influence in one place made for some heady observations and encounters.

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