Thomas Mann

The Big Dollar Bustout ... Is Too Big To Fail Still an Option?

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business


Eric Ehrmann

With efforts to rebrand America's national identity in the electronic media falling flat like a bad online date, taking away the dollar's too big to fail status might be the better wake up call.

Death in Venice in Venice. No Kidding.

Gwen Davis | Posted 09.30.2009 | Entertainment


Gwen Davis

Last night at the Teatro del Fenice was the Venice debut of choreographer John Neumeier's Tod in Venedig, a ballet performed by the Hamburg Ballett, based, they dared to say, on Thomas Mann's classic novel.

Coping With Book Guilt in London

David Finkle | Posted 11.12.2009 | Books


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.

The Sea as Sanatorium

Alex Henry | Posted 08.08.2009 | Style


Alex Henry

What once bored me about the beach--its uneventfulness--is now the source of its appeal.

An Open Letter to President-Elect Obama

Rob Riemen | Posted 02.02.2009 | Politics


Rob Riemen

As you compose your inaugural address, I fervently hope that you will not pass over the exchange of ideas in the White House between a great president and a great intellectual on the chilly morning of January 14, 1941.