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 ...

The vagabond life of a brilliant but doomed European genius Joseph Roth always knew when to get out. As a young man, he ran like hell from his birthplace of Brody, a small, struggling town in Galicia, ...

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 ...

Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth by Keiron Pim Granta £25 In 1936 Joseph Roth, one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, wrote of himself in a letter, “Humiliated, disgraced, indebted, ...

There are no easy subjects in his eye; instead, he focuses on figures we know little about, who we want to know more about, and then, in a meticulous, no-stone-unturned pursuit of their lives, tells ...