Joshua Cohen’s most recent novel, The Netanyahus, received the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His other books include Moving Kings, Book of Numbers, and Witz. He is the editor of He: Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka and I Want to Keep Smashing Myself Until I Am Whole: The Elias Canetti Reader.
“A novel of clarity and valor that explores the inmost lining of intellectual fame . . . Wherein the power of a singular mind grows into wisdom and wisdom into heroism.” —Cynthia Ozick
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction: A captivating portrait of a courageous anti-authoritarian thinker living in exile, inspired by the life story of Hannah Arendt.
COMING NOV 2026
Lion Feuchtwanger
Translation revised and introduced by Joshua Cohen
Translated from the German by James Cleugh
Notes by Richard J. Evans
“A long-forgotten masterpiece published in 1933 . . . A remnant of a world sick with foreboding, incredulity, creeping fear, and—this may feel most familiar to us today—the impossibility of gauging whether a society is really at the breaking point.” —Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic
Written in real time, as the Nazis consolidated their power over the winter of 1933, The Oppermanns captures the fall of Weimar Germany through the eyes of one bourgeois Jewish family, shocked and paralyzed by an ideology they cannot comprehend.