Joan Aiken’s neo-Gothic; Joseph Roth’s family epic. By Sadie Stein Dear readers, We’re in the midst of a cold snap on the East Coast. I’m writing from under a stack of blankets ...

For Joseph Roth, who fled across Europe to become part of the Jewish diaspora, there was an “equating of lost empire with lost childhood”; for Kafka, a feeling of alienation not just in his ...