Joshua Cohen
American novelist whose The Netanyahus won the Pulitzer Prize in 2022. His ambitious, encyclopedic fiction engages with Jewish history and identity with postmodern wit. He is one of the most formally adventurous American novelists of his generation.
Works
- WitzEpic reimagining of the Jewish exodus rendered in maximalist prose
- Book of NumbersNovelist hires a programmer to transcribe his stream of consciousness
- Moving KingsTwo movers and a broker navigate New York real estate
- The NetanyahusSatire of academic pretension and Jewish identity in contemporary America
- AttentionPhilosopher traps listener in digressive meditation on consciousness itself