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Dodge City by Patrick deWitt review – a wild draft-dodging road trip

This tale of a 60s college dropout driving across the US to avoid being sent to Vietnam is committed to both readerly pleasure and literary artifice

The Guardian - UK · Oct 1

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 · Dec 31, 2025

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 · Nov 25, 2024