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 defining image of the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, on its twelfth day, was not of the empty ocean but of a crowded room in Kuala Lumpur, from which a middle-aged woman was pulled, ...

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, ...

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 ...