Books by Joshua Cohen
Joshua Cohen is the author of nine books, including the novels Book of Numbers (2015) and, mostly recently, Moving Kings. In 2017, Granta Magazine included him on its decennial list of the Best Young American Writers. He was born in 1980 in Atlantic City and lives in New York City.
“Joshua Cohen’s The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It’s a genre-bending campus comedy about the Jewish-American experience which has attracted rave reviews. Writing in The Guardian, Leo Robson described it as ‘a comic historical fantasia’ that reads ‘like an attempt, as delightful as it sounds, to cross-breed Roth’s The Ghost Writer and Nabokov’s Pale Fire.'” Read more...
Cal Flyn, Five Books Editor
Interviews with Joshua Cohen
The Best Political Novels, recommended by Joshua Cohen
Through the writing of political novels, writers might hope to speak against their time, says the American author Joshua Cohen. Here he selects five books in which the protagonist undergoes a political education.
Interviews where books by Joshua Cohen were recommended
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novels
Every year, the Pulitzer Prize jury awards $15,000 to a work of “distinguished fiction published during the year by an American author, preferably dealing with American life.” We’ve compiled a guide to the books that have won this prize since the turn of the millennium.
Award-Winning Novels of 2022, recommended by Cal Flyn
Any end-of-year list is necessarily partial; no one person could hope to read every novel published in the English language in any given year. That’s why prize lists are so useful for guiding the casual reader’s literary diet. Here, our deputy editor Cal Flyn offers a brief round-up of the books that ruled victorious during the 2022 awards season.
