Joshua Cohen

Joshua Cohen is the author of Book of Numbers (Random House, 2015). His novel Witz (Dalkey Archive Press, 2010) and short story collection Four New Messages (Graywolf Press, 2012) were named Best Book of 2010 and Book of the Year by The Village Voice and The New Yorker. Cohen’s nonfiction writing has appeared in The New York Times, London Review of Books, Bookforum, and The Forward. He is a critic for Harper’s Magazine. Cohen reads both German and Hebrew and has translated works in both languages into English. He lives in Red Hook, Brooklyn. (Photo credit: The New York Times)