I disagree, however, with the opening statement that after the publication of вЂњBuddenbrooksвЂќ in 1901, Mann did not complete вЂњanother great workвЂќ until the 1912 вЂњDeath in Venice.вЂќ This is not bisexuality.ДЄ strength of ToibinвЂ™s work is his portrait of Katia Mann, a most engaging, intelligent, loyal wife, interesting in her own right.Д¬hristopher BehaвЂ™s review shed an illuminating light on MannвЂ™s nonfiction writings and the evolution of his political and artistic views over time. Parini cites a passage in which Toibin reveals that Mann was attracted to his wife when he imagined her as a boy. Toibin thoroughly documents MannвЂ™s homosexuality. 19), on the same page as Jay PariniвЂ™s review of вЂњThe Magician,вЂќ that Mann was bisexual. Readers of Colm ToibinвЂ™s superb novel вЂњThe Magician,вЂќ about Thomas Mann, will be surprised to read in Christopher BehaвЂ™s review of MannвЂ™s вЂњReflections of a Nonpolitical ManвЂќ (Sept. In 1949, G.M., along with Firestone Tires and Standard Oil among others, was convicted in the вЂњGreat American Streetcar ScandalвЂќ of conspiring to monopolize the sale of supplies in the auto industry, which would have eliminated mass transit and ensured decades of dependence on cars. ItвЂ™s worth noting that was not the most egregious plan of the company that built the ominously dramatic вЂњFuturamaвЂќ at the 1939 WorldвЂ™s Fair. 12), Simon Winchester mentions how General Motors вЂњinsidiouslyвЂќ put millions both on the road and in вЂњnear-permanent indebtedness.вЂќ In his ambitious review of two books on time and motion (Sept. Unlike the serious works of literature about the sisters of the cloth mentioned in LuchetteвЂ™s essay, itвЂ™s laugh-out-loud hilarious. Published in 1974, itвЂ™s a devastatingly clever story of a scandal among an order of British nuns whose leadership closely resembles that of high U.S. 19), and would like to put in a good word for my favorite novel about the profession (or calling): Muriel SparkвЂ™s вЂњThe Abbess of Crewe.вЂќ I greatly enjoyed Claire LuchetteвЂ™s essay вЂњ A Superfluity of NunsвЂќ (Sept.

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