Joseph Roth
Has the subtlety of a howitzer: Royal Opera’s Der Rosenkavalier reviewed
Richard Bratby 7 January 2017 9:00 am
In Joseph Roth’s The Radetzky March, the ageing Emperor Franz Joseph regrets the drab field-grey that has replaced his army’s…
Stefan Zweig: the tragedy of a great bad writer
Philip Hensher 22 November 2014 9:00 am
Stefan Zweig wasn’t, to be honest, a very good writer. This delicious fact was hugged to themselves by most of…
When intellectuals are clueless about the first world war
Philip Hensher 1 February 2014 9:00 am
No one alive now has any adult experience of the first world war, but still it shows no sign of…
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