The Spider's Web and Zipper and His Father

Joseph Roth. Overlook Press, $15.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-87951-361-0

These novellas portray Germany between the wars. In the first, anti-Semitic and anti-Communist WW I veteran Theodore Lohse devotes himself to an underground terrorist network; the latter recalls the Weimar Republic and German cinema of the '20s. (Dec.)

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