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The Master of Contradictions by Morten Høi Jensen review – how Thomas Mann wrote The Magic Mountain

A vivid account of the creation of one of literary modernism’s greatest achievements

The Guardian - UK

Crashing a wedding for the sake of cake

Letters: Thomas Mann and Salka Viertel | Nabil Shaban | Condolences to Keith Flett | Dogs on the pavement | Caesar’s invasion

The Guardian - UK

Björn Andrésen obituary

Actor who starred as the angelic boy Tadzio in the 1971 film Death in Venice - but found the resulting fame a ‘nightmare’

The Guardian - UK

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A queer art exhibition in Germany shines a spotlight on marginalized modernist artists

A new exhibition in Germany called “Queer Modernism

The Independent UK

Brooklyn and beyond: Colm Tóibín’s best books – ranked!

As the Irish author turns 70, we rate his best works of fiction – from his latest, Long Island, to his emotionally wrenching ‘masterpiece’

The Guardian - UK

I've Never Seen Project X, So I Watched It After The Netflix Documentary About The Crazy Party That It Inspired, And Whoa!

The documentary shows just how real things can get

Cinemablend

New on Hulu May 31-June 6: our expert's picks for 7 movies coming to Hulu this week

Picks for the best new movies on Hulu this week include two new 2025 movies and some old favorites.

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Movies to stream in June: our expert's 15 must-watch movies new to Netflix, Disney Plus, Max and more

From Netflix to Disney Plus, here are 15 movies you are not going to want to miss when they land on streaming in June.

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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.

The Conversation

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.

The Conversation

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

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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

Tom’s Guide

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.

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‘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

Marie Claire

Prime Video Is Saving the Rom-Com

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

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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

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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

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‘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

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

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