Although the Austrian novelist Joseph Roth died less than a hundred years ago (in 1939), he speaks to us today as if from another world. He was born in 1894 in Galicia, a child of the Dual Monarchy—that rambling remainder of Christendom. He was a journalist, writing thousands of pieces for German newspapers throughout the 1920s and ’30s. And he was Jewish. These biographica (...)
October 12, 2012
Books
‘Hell Reigns’
Joseph RothA Life in LettersTranslated and edited by Michael HofmannNorton, $39.95, 512 pp.
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