Thomas Mann, from behind, 1930. Hans Castorp, the protagonist of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, famously spends seven ...

In “Fateful Hours,” the road map to authoritarian disaster is laid out in gleamingly sinister detail by the German historian ...

Funny, vivid, ordinary in the most inclusive sense: author Geoff Dyer’s memoir of growing up in 1960s and 1970s Cheltenham – only child of a sheet-metal worker and a school dinner lady – summon up an ...

Heretic, debater, wife-snatcher, subject of a posthumous cult: Pico della Mirandola certainly had a wild career. In this smart and rangy book, Wilson-Lee, a Cambridge don, paints a glorious portrait ...

Much about E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776–1822) can be discerned from his name. Born Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann, he later replaced “Wilhelm” with “Amadeus” as both a tribute to Mozart and a declaration ...

Ken Thomas is a national political reporter covering the Trump administration. He has worked for The Wall Street Journal since November 2018. Ken has covered the past four presidential campaigns and ...

Byron Chan Mann is an American actor born on August 13, 1967 in Hong Kong, China. He studied in Los Angeles. He attended the British All-Boys School, where he was actively involved in the school’s ...

After moving to several cities in Pennsylvania, she moved to Pittsburgh as a child. Growing up, her family lived in Mt. Lebanon and Wexford before settling in Fox ...

Voters chose their selections for Atlanta City Council president, as well as members to fill 15 council seats.

Rambunctious and often offensive, R. Crumb draws freely on pre-existing racial and gender stereotypes, and always ...

Have you ever wondered what life was like for the wealthy families who shaped South Carolina's history? Walking through grand historic mansions gives you a peek into their fascinating world of elegant ...

For now, though, when students arrived at brand new Horace Mann School at 8:55 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 1949, they entered the most modern school in the city. The building had been designed by noted ...