Thomas Mann

Top 10 imaginary journeys in literature | Christy Edwall
Disobeying the injunction to write only ‘what you know’, authors from Bram Stoker to Virginia Woolf have created rich fictional adventures into the unknown
Christy Edwall
01, Feb, 2023 @12:17 PM

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
Lara Feigel
31, Jan, 2023 @4:30 PM

Top 10 novels about neighbours | Ayşegül Savaş
From commune-dwellers to lodgers in miniature, the people we live alongside make intriguing subjects for fiction
Ayşegül Savaş
11, May, 2022 @2:15 PM

Colm Tóibín: ‘Boris Johnson would be a blood clot … Angela Merkel the cancer’
The acclaimed novelist on chemotherapy, growing up gay in Ireland and writing his first poetry collection at the age of 66
Lisa Allardice
14, Dec, 2021 @7:00 AM

The Magician by Colm Tóibín review – a difficult Mann to know
This dramatisation of Thomas Mann’s private and public life never quite convinces as biography or fiction
Anthony Cummins
26, Sep, 2021 @8:00 AM

The Magician by Colm Tóibín review – inside the mind of Thomas Mann
This compelling fictionalised biography explores the life and times of the exiled German Nobel winner, exquisitely balancing the intimate and momentous
Lucy Hughes-Hallett
17, Sep, 2021 @6:30 AM

The cupboard looks increasingly bare for Marcus Rashford’s detractors | Tim Adams
Those who fought against the campaign for free school meals should be shamed by families’ miserly food parcels
Tim Adams
17, Jan, 2021 @7:15 AM

'It had been on my shelf for years': readers share their lockdown reads
Publishers report that coronavirus has boosted sales of long, classic novels. You reveal the great baggy monsters you’ve found the time to tackle
Guardian readers and Rachel Obordo
06, Nov, 2020 @10:00 AM

The end of coronavirus: what plague literature tells us about our future
From Thucydides to Camus, there are plenty of hopeful reminders that there’s nothing unprecedented about the coronavirus lockdown - and that pandemics do end
Marcel Theroux
01, May, 2020 @10:00 AM

Tackle that to-be-read pile: the books to try if you're self-isolating
From Nora Ephron to Thomas Mann, here are 12 books to entertain, challenge and inspire if you’re confined at home due to Covid-19
Alex Clark
18, Mar, 2020 @2:30 PM

Gigi Crompton obituary
Other lives: Botanist and author of the Cambridgeshire Flora Records Since 1538
Kirsty Findlay
17, Feb, 2020 @4:03 PM

Death in Venice review – Britten's opera dazzles and glows
Mark Padmore’s impressive central performance powers David McVicar’s luxurious if earthbound revival of Britten’s final opera
Erica Jeal
22, Nov, 2019 @1:00 PM
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