Joshua Cohen

Joshua Cohen’s most recent novel, The Netanyahus, won the 2021 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction and the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He is the editor of I Want to Keep Smashing Myself Until I Am Whole: An Elias Canetti Reader, which was published in September. (June 2023)

The Imps of His Age

In a harrowing, witty novel by Miroslav Krleža, written in Yugoslavia on the eve of World War II, a mediocre lawyer succumbs to the impetus to speak against all reason.

June 6, 2023

The Gods of Chaos and Stupidity

“We live in a paranoid world, which believes in conspiracies, coordinated efforts. People for some reason find this reassuring—at least more reassuring than what I believe to be true, which is that we live hopeful amid utter senselessness.”

November 5, 2022

Lucky Guy

Jared Kushner’s anti-ideological ideology is to get the best deal for whomever he represents—the business he was born into, the business he married into, and, most of all, himself.

Breaking History: A White House Memoir

by Jared Kushner

October 20, 2022 issue

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