Joshua Cohen

Joshua Cohen is the author, most recently, of Witz. A collection of novellas, Four New Messages, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in 2012.

Point of Departure

A translation of Mahmoud Darwish’s journals offers an introduction to the Palestinian poet’s work

Impromptu Fantasias

Inside the world of Benjamin De Casseres: aphorist, diarist, egotist

Selective Memoir

Before Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak wrote poetry—and about himself

The Literatures of the Two Easts

Are Hasidism and Zen Buddhism kindred movements?

On the Other Side

Moishe Nadir wrote Yiddish stories for American audiences—on deadline

Through the Looking Glass

The many lives of a restless painter