Andrew Wittstadt is joined by writer, Maggie Zhu, in an hours long discussion of Thomas Mann’s masterpiece, The Magic Mountain. Topic Include: stuck in the sanatorium–Hans Castorp as a coward–intellectuals–twitter discourse repeating itself–the trad cath movement–AWP–German modernism–and more!

Recorded 4/16/2025

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