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A Cage Went in Search of a Bird by Ali Smith, Tommy Orange, Naomi Alderman, Helen Oyeyemi, Keith Ridgway, Yiyun Li, Charlie Kaufman, Elif Batuman, Leone Ross, Joshua Cohen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
A collection of brand-new short stories written by prize-winning, bestselling writers and inspired by Kafka - published to commemorate the centenary of his death*Chosen as a 2024 highlight in the Guardian, the Financial Times, Esquire and the New European*Franz Kafka is widely regarded as one of the gre ...Show more
ATTENTION: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction by Joshua Cohen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Description: Rising star Joshua Cohen's first collection of essays, a fully realized work created from a selection of previously published and new nonfiction - essays, memoir, criticism, letters, diaries - covering an extraordinary array of topics: politics, literature, art, music, travel, the media, an ...Show more
Abel and Cain by Gregor von Rezzori; David Dollenmayer (Translator); Joachim Neugroschel (Translator); Marshall Yarbrough (Translator); Joshua Cohen (Introduction by)
$42.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Appearing together in English for the first time, two masterpieces that take on the jazz age, the Nuremburg trials, postwar commercialism, and the feat of writing a book, presented in one brilliant volume In 1985, Gregor von Rezzori published an English translation of a novel entitled The Death of My B ...Show more
Book of Numbers by Joshua Cohen
$36.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Dazzling and engrossing". (Colm Toibin, Guardian). Book of Numbers is a novel about two men of the same age and with the same name: Joshua Cohen. The first Joshua is a writer whose keenly anticipated debut had the bad luck to be published on September 11, 2001. The other Joshua is the enigmatic billion ...Show more
Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto by Joshua Cohen
$44.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
This brilliant first novel is a portrait of an artist at the end of an art form. The elderly Jewish-Hungarian composer Schneidermann, who survived a musical education, survived the war, survived Europe, survived the neglect of all his music, finally and suddenly vanishes during a movie matinee on the Up ...Show more
Four New Messages by Professor of Political Science Joshua Cohen (Stanford University MIT Stanford University Stanford University MIT MIT Stanford University Stanford University Stanford University MIT MIT Stanford University Stanford University Stanford University Stanford University MIT MIT Stanford University)
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A quartet of audacious fictions that capture the pathos and absurdity of life in the age of the internet"*A" New York Times Book" Review Editors' Choice*""* "One of Flavorwire's "50 Books That Define the Past Five Years in Literature"A spectacularly talented young writer has returned from the present wi ...Show more
He: Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka (riverrun Editions) by Franz Kafka; Joshua Cohen (Introduction by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Being asked to write about Kafka is like being asked to describe the Great Wall of China by someone who's standing just next to it. The only honest thing to do is point.' Joshua Cohen, from his preface to He: Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka This is a Kafka emergency kit, a congregation of the brief, t ...Show more
Moving Kings by Joshua Cohen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
The year is 2015, and 21-year-olds Yoav and Uri have just completed their compulsory military service in the Israel DefenseForces. In keeping with national tradition, they take a year off for rest, recovery, and travel. They come to New York Cityand begin working for Yoav's distant cousin, David King-a ...Show more
On Anger by Agnes Callard (Editor); Deborah Chasman (Foreword by); Joshua Cohen (Foreword by)
$47.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Boston Review / Forum Ser.
Is anger eternal? Righteous? Reflections on the causes and consequences of an phenomenon critical to our intimate and public lives. From Aristotle to Martha Nussbaum, philosophers have explored the moral status of anger. We get angry for a reason: we feel wronged. That reason can be eternal, some argue ...Show more
The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A job interview goes awry for the exiled patriarch of Israel's First Family in this riotous novel from one of contemporary fiction's most brilliant and audacious writers. Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian--but not an historian of the Jews--is co ...Show more
The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen
$31.00 AUD
$32.99 (6% off)
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
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 intervi ...Show more
The Netanyahus: Winner of 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction by Joshua Cohen
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Mixing fiction with non-fiction, the campus novel with the lecture, The Netanyahus is a wildly inventive, genre-bending comedy of blending, identity, and politics - 'An Account of A Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family' that finds Joshua Cohen at the height ...Show more