On May 29th 1945, three weeks after the surrender of Nazi Germany but before the nuclear bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the world-famous German author Thomas Mann (1875-1955), Nobel ...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (C) signs the Golden Book of the Hanseatic City of Luebeck before a ceremony to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth Nobel prize winning author Thomas Mann.

One of the lingering mysteries about the German writer Thomas Mann is how there could have been any lingering mystery about his repressed –make that sublimated– sexual desire for beautiful young men.

Benno Herz, Claudia Gordon and Oliver Hartmann inside the Thomas Mann House in Pacific Palisades. The three help maintain the legacy of Thomas Mann, the German literary icon who fled the Nazi regime. ...

Most great writers leave the assertion of their place in literature to their disciples; some confidently speak out for themselves. One such was the late, great William Butler Yeats.*Another is ...

On the morning of the Palisades fire, Claudia Gordon quickly accepted that there was only so much she could do to save everything under her watch. She helps manage the Pacific Palisades homes once ...