Joshua Cohen – författare

Den omtalade, kritikerhyllade och Pulitzerprisade romanen nu i pocket!

Undertitel: En redogörelse för en mindre och när allt kommer omkring rentav försumbar episod i historien om en mycket känd familj.

"Fullkomligt genialiskt!" Expressen

Vem är den mytomspunne Ben-Zion Netanyahu, som med hustru och tre söner (varav en heter Benjamin) anländer till Corbin College i den universitetstäta delstaten New York vintern 1960? Historikern Ruben Blum har blivit ålagd att vara hans värd och dras direkt in i en rad märkvärdiga händelser som utspelar sig kring den israeliske forskaren och snart är ingenting i den sömniga universitetsmiljön sig likt. Den kritikerhyllade och Pulitzerprisbelönade Netanyahus är en roman om judisk identitet, amerikanskt universitets­liv och om politiska utopier och tragedier. Med drastisk humor och ett språk som forsar fram över sidorna får Joshua Cohen 1900-­talets historia att mullra på ett helt nytt sätt.

JOSHUA COHEN (född 1980) är en av sin gene­­rations mest hyllade amerikanska författare och har givit ut tio böcker i olika genrer. Netanyahus belönades bland annat med Pulitzerpriset 2022 och har sin upprinnelse i en ­anekdot som Cohen fick ­berättad för sig av den legenda­riske litteratur­kritikern Harold Bloom. Det är den första av Cohens böcker som översatts till svenska.

GABRIEL ITKES-SZNAP är poet, litteratur­kritiker och översättare.

''Kafka himself would love it'' The i''As captivating as it is thought-provoking'' Glamour''Unsettling and uneasy'' Daily Mail''Glorious'' Harper''s BazaarA collection of brand-new short stories written by major international writers and inspired by Kafka What happens when Kafka''s idionsyncratic imagination meets some of the greatest literary minds writing in English across the globe today? In this collection of stories, commissioned to commemorate one hundred years since his death, ten of our most celebrated international writers take ideas of Kafka''s - motifs from his stories, titles of his famous works, or unfinished fragments left behind in his Blue Octavo Notebooks - and run with them to make something new.

"A brilliant selection . . . Canetti''s range astonishes." —Claire Messud, Harper''sA career-spanning collection of writings by the Nobel laureate Elias Canetti, edited and introduced by Pulitzer Prize winner Joshua Cohen.He embarked on no adventures, he was in no war. He was never in prison, he never killed anyone. He neither won nor lost a fortune. All he ever did was live in this century. But that alone was enough to give his life dimension, both of feeling and of thought.Here, in his own words, is one of the twentieth century’s foremost chroniclers: a dizzyingly inventive, formally unplaceable, unstoppably peripatetic writer named Elias Canetti, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981. I Want to Keep Smashing Myself Until I Am Whole is a summa of Canetti’s life and thought, and the definitive introduction to a writer whose genius for interpreting world-historical changes was matched by a keen sense of wonder and an abiding skepticism about the knowability of the self. Born into a Sephardi Jewish family in Bulgaria, Canetti later lived in Austria, England, and Switzerland while traversing, in writing, the great thematic provinces of his time: politics, identity, mortality, and more. Sourced from Canetti’s landmark texts, including Crowds and Power, an analysis of authoritarianism and mobs; Auto-da-Fé, a darkly comic, daringly modernist novel about the fate of European literature; the famous sequence of sensory-titled memoirs, including The Tongue Set Free and The Torch in My Ear; and never-before-translated writings such as the posthumous The Book Against Death, this collection assembles its luminous shards into the fullest portrait yet of Canetti’s remarkable achievement.Edited and introduced by Pulitzer Prize winner Joshua Cohen (Book of Numbers, The Netanyahus), I Want to Keep Smashing Myself Until I Am Whole leads us from Canetti’s polyglot childhood to his mature preoccupations, and his friendships and rivalries with Hermann Broch, James Joyce, Karl Kraus, Thomas Mann, Robert Musil, and others. This collection is also interspersed with aphorisms and diary entries, revealing Canetti’s formal range and stylistic versatility in flashes of erudition and introspective humor. Throughout, we come to see Canetti’s restless fascination with the instability of identity as one of the keys to his thought—as he reminds us, It all depends on this: with whom we confuse ourselves.

The problem of justifying legal punishment has been at the heart of legal and social philosophy from the very earliest recorded philosophical texts. However, despite several hundred years of debate, philosophers have not reached agreement about how legal punishment can be morally justified. That is the central issue addressed by the contributors to this volume. All of the essays collected here have been published in the highly respected journal Philosophy & Public Affairs. Taken together, they offer not only significant proposals for improving established theories of punishment and compelling arguments against long-held positions, but also ori-ginal and important answers to the question, "How is punishment to be justified?" Part I of this collection, "Justifications of Punishment," examines how any practice of punishment can be morally justified. Contributors include Jeffrie G. Murphy, Alan H. Goldman, Warren Quinn, C. S. Nino, and Jean Hampton. The papers in Part II, "Problems of Punishment," address more specific issues arising in established theories. The authors are Martha C. Nussbaum, Michael Davis, and A. John Simmons. In the final section, "Capital Punishment," contributors discuss the justifiability of capital punishment, one of the most debated philosophical topics of this century. Essayists include David A. Conway, Jeffrey H. Reiman, Stephen Nathanson, and Ernest van den Haag.