On Magicking a Mountain: World-Making in Literary Translation
2026 Ida Herz Lecture
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On Magicking a Mountain: World-Making in Literary Translation
2026 Ida Herz Lecture
Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain with Susan Bernofsky & Veronika Fuechtner, sponsored by Goethe Institute Boston
“Thomas Mann’s Pessimistic Humanism,” a review of Morten Høi Jensen’s The Master of Contradictions, published in The Nation

A workshop on Susan Bernofsky’s new translation of Thomas Mann’s novel The Magic Mountain
For registration information, contact Department of German Studies, Dartmouth College
Interviewed by Simone Schmollack for taz (die tageszeitung)

Antrittsvorlesung (Inaugural Lecture), August Wilhelm von Schlegel Gastprofessur für Poetik der Übersetzung at Freie Universität Berlin sponsored by Deutscher Übersetzerfonds, lecture hosted by English Theatre Berlin, with introductory remarks by Günther Grosser, Ulrich Blumenbach, and Dr. Susanne Strätling
“Der Tag / Heute zu Gast”: Interviewed by Peter Claus (in German) for Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg

Expanded version of the essay “Translation as Storytelling” now out in This Is a Classic: Translators on Making Writers Global, edited by Regina Galasso (Bloomsbury)

Lecture hosted by the Translation Initiative at Yale University

“Turn Up the Volume”: Interviewed by Molly Wagschal and Campbell Campbell for Columbia Journal of Literary Criticism
The Goethe-Institut Toronto was delighted to host Colm Tóibín & Susan Bernofsky for a conversation about Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain and Tóibín’s new novel, The Magician.