Joshua Cohen Reads “My Camp”

The author reads his story from the October 21, 2024, issue of the magazine.

October 13, 2024

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Joshua Cohen reads his story “My Camp,” from the October 21, 2024, issue of the magazine. Cohen’s books include the novels “Witz,” “Moving Kings,” and “The Netanyahus,” which won the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction and the 2022 Pulitzer Prize.

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