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The Possessed

No Ouija board required: on Philip Roth’s writing, legacy, and a new biography

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Joshua Cohen on April 1, 2021

The Possessed

Philip Roth reviews his own biographer

by Joshua Cohen,

Hat Tips

By Joshua Cohen, from “Hat Lessons Gleaned from Attending a Film Noir Marathon with a Nonagenarian Ex-Milliner Who Never Stops Talking,” a journal entry that is included in Attention: Dispatches…

by Joshua Cohen,

New Books

In the harsh winter of 1895, Tolstoy wrote a story called “Master and Man,” which tells of a merchant named Brekhunov who, on a day that threatens a blizzard, orders…

by Joshua Cohen,

New Books

In the year since Patrick Modiano won the Nobel Prize in Literature, translations of his works have glutted the shelves. Part of this influx has to do with the general…

by Joshua Cohen,

New Books

Before Europe orientalized its eastern colonies, the Jew orientalized himself. Living in exile — amid the empires of Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome, and the four Islamic caliphates — he…

by Joshua Cohen,

New Books

You never step in the same river twice, but a rival you step on constantly. “Everything flows” — including anger and resentment. According to Socrates, according to Plato, the original…

by Joshua Cohen,

From the Palo Alto Sessions

By Joshua Cohen, from Book of Numbers, out next month from Random House. Cohen is a contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine. Toward the end D-Unit had been working on the…

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