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 ...

All his life, Joseph Roth preferred to write in public. He was a familiar sight in cafes and hotel lobbies across most of continental Europe, including Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Prague and Marseilles.

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, ...

Roth was an outraged witness to tyranny, which led him to exile, and his books to the bonfire. In “Endless Flight,” Keiron Pim examines the flawed man and his resonant legacy. By Casey Schwartz VIENNA ...

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 ...