The writer Joseph Roth died of alcoholism in Paris in May 1939. He was buried in a Catholic cemetery, but denied full rites as he had not been baptized. Otto von Habsburg, claimant to the defunct ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “Our whole lives are games of roulette,” the journalist and novelist Joseph Roth wrote with defiant bravura in ...

Is the Getty Really Spending That Much Money for Its Redo? The Rummage Sale of The Devil Wears Prada 2 Endless Flight is the first biography in English of Joseph Roth, and that in itself is a sad ...

This timely, impeccably researched biography details the restless brilliance of the mournful writer who fled Hitler’s Germany and sought solace in drink The writer and journalist Joseph Roth was born ...