The new episode of our podcast features David Wellbery, LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor at the University of Chicago and the author of major works on German literature and intellectual history. We spoke with Professor Wellbery about the German novelist Thomas Mann and his mid-career masterpiece The Magic Mountain, one of the most important works of in the literature of disease and an incisive examination of a society facing the explosive detonation of its values and structures.