Meet the Cohens

Josh Cohen teaches Modern Literary Theory at Goldsmiths and is a psychoanalyst. He is the author of books and articles on modern literature, cultural theory and psychoanalysis, including Why We Remain in the Dark, Not Working, How to Love and What To Do. His latest book is Losers.

Joshua Cohen won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his latest novel The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family. His books include the novels Moving Kings, Book of Numbers, Witz, A Heaven of Others, and Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto. He also wrote the short-fiction collection Four New Messages and essay collection Attention: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction.

Jon Faine is an award-winning journalist who, until October 2019, hosted the morning broadcast for ABC Radio in Melbourne for more than twenty years. He regularly contributes to major newspapers with opinion pieces and has been nominated for three Walkley awards. Apollo & Thelma: A True Tall Tale is his second book.