The German novelist Thomas Mann wrote his mid-career masterpiece: The Magic Mountain in 1924. This novel of disease carries traces of the violent upheavals of pre- and post-WWI Europe amid its setting, a tuberculosis sanatorium high in the Alps

Podcast: Caroline Weber on In Search of Lost Time

Oct 28th, 2021 36m 31s

Caroline Weber is a Proust scholar, a professor of French and comparative literature at Barnard, and the author of the excellent Proust's Duchess, a group biography of the women who inspired the great novelist to create the Duchesse de Guermant

Podcast: Tom Holland on Thucydides

Oct 7th, 2021 27m 14s

The Athenian writer Thucydides helped lay the foundation for all subsequent enterprises in the field with his History of the Peloponnesian War. This unsurpassed account of Greek life in the 5th Century BCE, of Athens in full flower and its disa

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