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From My 'Commonplace Book,' No. 9: Thomas Mann, Richard Wagner, and Adolf Hitler

There's nothing like a look back at Germany in the 1930s to help us appreciate that things are not as bad as they could be

Reason

Penis envy, the Oedipus complex and authentic paths to meaning: 25 writers, from Siri Hustvedt to Colm Toibin, reflect on Freud’s legacy

One of the more appealing customs of psychoanalysis is that analysts must be analysed. If you are going to put others on the couch you should lie on it first yourself. That way your psychic wrinkles can be identified – maybe even ironed out – before you are let loose…

The Conversation

Horror, myth and a feminist reworking of Thomas Mann: Olga Tokarczuk’s The Empusium defies classification

You’ve got to hand it to the Nobel Prize in Literature committee: its citations are masterpieces of brevity and precision. Entire lifetimes of tireless, painstaking effort, thousands of pages written over decades, are summed up in a statement of around 20 words.

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The Magic Mountain is a sweeping critique of totalitarian Europe. 100 years later, its warnings feel urgent

This month, Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain turns 100. One of the 20th century’s towering literary achievements, it is a sweeping critique of the dangerous totalitarian political forces that shaped – and very nearly destroyed – Europe in Mann’s lifetime.

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Six of the best winter mountain breaks in Europe

From the Arctic Circle to Slovenia’s Julian Alps, we pick scenic and soothing retreats to don snowshoes, ski empty pistes and tune into winter

The Guardian - UK

The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk review – hallucinogenic horrors

The Nobel laureate’s riff on The Magic Mountain takes on a darkly surreal life of its own in this tale of a young man’s visit to a health resort

The Guardian - UK

Why you should swap the crowded French Riviera for Marseille’s lesser-known shores

Nice local Chloe Braithwaite finds respite from the summer crowds of the Cote d'Azur in the sleepy towns that surround France’s oldest city

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I’ve watched this Max movie more than 10 times — and you need to stream it this weekend

"Me and Earl and the Dying Girl" is one of my favorite movies and an almost perfect comedy-drama — you need to stream it on Max right now.

Tom’s Guide

‘This is much more intimate’: Colm Tóibín on writing a sequel to Brooklyn, 15 years on

The Irish author on the follow-up to his bestselling novel, being blanked at the Oscars and the joys of giving up drinking

The Guardian - UK

Prime Video Is Saving the Rom-Com

From 'Upgraded' to 'The Idea of You,' Amazon's original romantic comedies are having a moment.

Marie Claire

Expressionists review – the vivid premonitions of Europe’s wildest-eyed geniuses

Tate Modern’s survey of Kandinsky, Münter and the rest of the avant garde Blue Rider group is an exhilarating riot of colour – but also abounds with anxieties about the coming conflicts of the 20th century

The Guardian - UK

Death in Venice review – Britten’s final opera soars in WNO’s captivating staging

Olivia Fuchs’ new production casts aerialists as the Polish family to stunning effect. Mark Le Brocq is a sympathetic Aschenbach and Leo Hussain conducts with a sure hand

The Guardian - UK

‘A delirious deco dream’: former TB sanatorium is now Finland’s most unusual holiday let

For a limited period, architecture lovers can spend the night in a modernist masterpiece designed by Alvar Aalto

The Guardian - UK

The Republican party is at last paying the price of its Faustian pact with Trump

The ousting by extremists of House speaker Kevin McCarthy is a sign of the GOP’s willingness to test the limits of US democracy

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The Independent UK

Venice Film Festival round-up: From Yorgos Lanthimos standout Poor Things to Michael Mann’s operatic Ferrari

Festivalgoers will surely agree that the 2023 competition was one of the most eclectic and eccentric in recent memory, writes Geoffrey Macnab

Cinemablend

Winning Time’s John C. Reilly And Hadley Robinson Get Candid About Shooting That Heated Family Monopoly Scene In The Season 2 Premiere

Winning Time stars John C. Reilly and Hadley Robinson opened up about filming that tense Monopoly sequence for the Season 2 premiere.

The Guardian - UK

Immersed in sea, snow, sand and silence: a winter break in Lithuania

A 60-mile sandbar dotted with forests and icy lagoons, the Curonian Spit’s buried villages, elk and elemental beauty attracted Sartre and De Beauvoir

The Guardian - UK

Nurse! My pen! Hanif Kureishi’s hospital musings and the art of sickbed writing

The author has published 10,000 words since being left paralysed – about the able-bodied, sexual positions and racist taunts. From Hilary Mantel to Audre Lorde, we look at how illness changes a writer

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10 must-read paperbacks this November

Paperback Picks is back — now a once-a-month compilation. Here are 10 great books just out in paperback; some of which I've read and enjoyed, and some I can't wait to get to. Happy fall reading!

The Independent UK

Teacher asks court to restore suit on trans student pronouns

The Supreme Court of Virginia has heard arguments in the case of a high school teacher who was fired after he refused to use a transgender student’s pronouns

The Guardian - US

The Destructionists review: brilliant study of Republican rage pre-Trump

Dana Milbank of the Washington Post does not fall victim to false equivalency. He knows the GOP is a threat to democracy

The Conversation

Russia's antisemitism aimed at Ukraine's Zelenskyy is just the Kremlin variant of a very old European virus

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, was asked in May 2022 how Russia could claim that Ukraine was run by Nazis, since Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is Jewish.

The Guardian - UK

Top 10 novels about neighbours

From commune-dwellers to lodgers in miniature, the people we live alongside make intriguing subjects for fiction

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Ed Balls’s cultural highlights

The author and former Labour MP on steamy hospital dramas, Stanley Tucci’s charisma and his current favourite cookbook

The Guardian - UK

Irish novelist Colm Tóibín wins Rathbones Folio prize for The Magician

Fictionalised biography of writer Thomas Mann beats Booker prize-winner Damon Galgut to £30,000 award

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