Joshua Cohen

"Benjamin Gold is damaged goods. After he cracked up in the war and was discharged into a psych ward, his rich wife dumped him. Right after that, the white-shoe law firm that never hired Jews dumped him too; without powerful in-laws, it didn't matter how many cases he won or how much he shortened his name. Unemployable as a lawyer, he wound up working as a private eye - and not exactly at the top of the profession. Drunk and anorectic, his only remaining...

Yoav y Uri, jóvenes veteranos de la última guerra de Gaza, llegan en 2015 a Nueva York después de completar el servicio militar israelí.Trabajan en la empresa de mudanzas de David King, un primo lejano de Yoav, judío republicano y en plena crisis existencial. A través del absurdo trabajo de vaciar casas y desahuciar, Joshua Cohen nos muestra una sociedad interracial y desestructurada en la que sus miembros pueden terminar estallando.

PREMIO PULITZER 2022 En la navidad de 1959, Ruben Blum, un historiador judío, es elegido en la universidad de Corbin para valorar la aplicación de un exiliado israelí especializado en la inquisición española. Se trata de Benzion Netanyahu, padre del ex-presidente de Israel Benjamín Netanyahu. Joshua Cohen mezcla ficción y realidad en esta novela de campus que pudo escribir gracias a su amistad con Harold Bloom. Los Netanyahus es una comedia...

"Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian-but not an historian of the Jews-is co-opted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an exiled Israeli scholar specializing in the Spanish Inquisition. When Benzion Netanyahu shows up for an interview, family unexpectedly in tow, Blum plays the reluctant host, to guests who proceed to lay waste to his American complacencies. Mixing fiction with...

"A propulsive, incendiary novel about faith, race, class, and what it means to have a home, from Joshua Cohen, "a major American writer" (The New York Times)"-- Provided by publisher. "This is a novel about two young Israeli soldiers who travel to New York after fighting in the Gaza War and find work as eviction movers. It's an incendiary story of the eviction crisis in poor African-American neighborhoods in America that also shines new light on...

Part Friday Night Lights by H. G. Bissinger, part Outsiders by S. E. Hinton, this debut YA novel tells the incredibly powerful story of bullying and how—taken to the extreme—it can wreak havoc on the lives of teenagers. Kurt is a talented but emotionally damaged football player. Danny is a rising star on the gymnastics team, an outsider in a school where the football team rules. But the two form an unlikely friendship, and when one of the gym...

"Martha C. Nussbaum, Recipient of the 2012 Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences" Susan Moller Okin is Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. She is the author of Women in Western Political Thought (Princeton) and Justice, Gender, and the Family (Basic Books). Joshua Cohen is Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,...

In 1930s Croatia, a respected lawyer utters a truth at a party and is punished for it by the establishment. Paradoxically, his trial and imprisonment give him a sense of freedom. A study of individualism. By the author of The Return of Philip Latinovicz.

"Cain was Gregor von Rezzori's last book, a pendant to his monumental The Death of My Brother Abel, and in it he revisits the themes that he explored throughout his literary oeuvre: the origins of Nazism, the physical and moral ruin of Europe, the Americanization of the world, the ever-diminished role of beauty in daily life. But Cain, even as it looks back toward Rezzori's lifework, also represents an advance towards an ever more daringly improvisatory...