Joshua Cohen

Jun 14, 2024 | theparisreview.org | Joshua Cohen

By Joshua Cohen June 14, 2024 Graphing is the practice of visualizing the abstract—the use of the coordinate plane not to map a territory or to demarcate a two-dimensional surface but to track a measurable quantity across space and time, quantities such as position, velocity, temperature, and brightness.

May 23, 2024 | interviewmagazine.com | Joshua Cohen |Jake Nevins

Claire Messud’s sprawling new novel, This Strange Eventful History, is, as its title implies, more than just a novel. The layered, postcolonial saga draws upon Messud’s own family histories and records, including her grandfather’s unpublished memoir, to detail the diaspora of a French colonial family during the fallout of the Algerian Revolution. Messud’s work, in some ways, upends what we have come to see as a typical postcolonial narrative.

Apr 26, 2024 | theparisreview.org | Joshua Cohen

By Joshua Cohen April 26, 2024 Read an excerpt from The Book Against Death on the Paris Review Daily here. Quixotic is a word that comes to mind when thinking of Elias Canetti, not just because Cervantes’s novel was his favorite novel but because Canetti, too, was a man from La Mancha.

Feb 28, 2024 | bipc.com | Joshua Cohen

Joshua Cohen, shareholder in the firm’s Intellectual Property Section and Mechanical Practice Group Co-Leader, co-chaired a program of the Tokyo Intellectual Property American Inn of Court on Feb. 15, 2024, held in Tokyo. “IP Mix: Form and Function for 3D Design” brought together a panel of Japanese and U.S. attorneys, and the program considered IP laws and strategies for protecting three-dimensional designs that include elements of both form and function.

Nov 19, 2023 | lancasteronline.com | Joshua Cohen

I am very concerned by the rising wave of antisemitism, violence, death threats and bigotry against Jews in the United States, including on our college campuses. The dissemination of false narratives about the war between Hamas and Israel serves to support Hamas’ terrorist goals. The false and misleading statements also foster antisemitism and bigotry.