Loved The Mind-Body Problem by for its brainy, unapologetic comedy of intellect? The Netanyahus by bites harder.
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- Campus farce w/ actual political teeth
- Jewish neuroses—no apologies, all authenticity
- Gender wars in tweed & tenure
- Absurdist pacing that suddenly gut-punches
If Goldstein's genius was smuggling Spinoza into a bedroom farce, Cohen delivers the inverse thrill: a campus comedy that detonates into a meditation on Jewish identity, intellectual posturing, and the farcical theater of American academia. Here are flawed Jewish minds—hungry, neurotic, unsparing—rendered with the same refusal to sanitize ambition or desire that made Renee Feuer's philosophical horniness so intoxicating.
Cohen's narrator is every bit the overthinking academic caught between highbrow aspiration and lowbrow reality, skewering Ivy League elitism while wrestling with heritage, gender politics, and the absurdity of gatekeeping genius.
This is what happens when satire grows teeth sharp enough to draw blood.
What Readers Are Saying
"The Netanyahus is as sublimely written a novel as anything you're likely to read this year." — MJ Nicholls, Goodreads
"I adored the humour, the effortless prose, the references that made me feel more intelligent than I am, and the digressions from traditional fiction prose style." — Alan, Goodreads
"his intelligence and wit are so powerful they kind of terrify me. This is simply a masterfully written novel." — Blair, Goodreads
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