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. ...

For 10 years between 1942 and 1952, Thomas Mann, the Nobel Prize-winning German author, lived in a Pacific Palisades home that he had built while he and his family were exiled from their native ...

Among the disappointments of Colm Toíbín’s new novel, “The Magician,” which imagines the life of Thomas Mann, is any real sense of the richly extravagant artistic life of the émigré community in 1940s ...

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 ...

Igor Levit plays piano for an audience that includes critic Alex Ross, in the black mask, and Frido Mann, Thomas Mann's grandson, wearing the blue mask, in the first performance on Thomas Mann's piano ...