Joseph Roth
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Berlin's red lights turn into art hub
Portraits of writer Joseph Roth's contemporaries are seen in the Joseph Roth Diele restaurant in Potsdamer Street in Berlin. A shabby area of Berlin best known for its curb-crawling prostitutes and drug dealers is recovering some of the Bohemian allure o from Stuff.co.nz Read more »
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London’s Last Waltz
Those planning to come to London for the Olympics should read Joseph Roth’s Radetzky March. For London today resembles nowhere more closely than fin-de-siècle Vienna—in good ways, but also in bad. A hundred years ago, the seemingly immortal Emperor Franz from Newsweek Read more »
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A Good Man Who Outlived His Country
The short, overwhelmingly sad life of Joseph Roth. History, like earthquakes, has a way of surprising us with unexpected aftershocks. Last July, nearly a century after the fall of the Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy, Archduke Otto von Hapsburg (1912–2011) from American Spectator Read more »
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Books of collected letters: Five Reviews
The dashing British author Bruce Chatwin, widely admired for his fictionalized travel account “In Patagonia” (1977) and novel “Utz” (1988), died prematurely in 1989. His letters, co-edited by his widow, Elizabeth Chatwin, and his biographer Nicholas Shak from NJ.com Read more »
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A Prophet of Decline
The Viennese still clap and stomp during the chorus of the Radetzkymarsch, the ebullient martial tune by Johann Strauss, from which the underappreciated author Joseph Roth took the title of his most-celebrated book. (Go here to watch Herbert von Karajan from The American Interest Read more »
