Christopher Shrimpton

A campus novel with a difference: The Netanyahus, by Joshua Cohen, reviewed

A comedy about a Jewish academic’s unexpected arrival at an American university is combined with a series of lectures on Zionism

Joshua Cohen. Credit: Getty Images 
issue 22 May 2021
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  • The Netanyahus

    Joshua Cohen

    Fitzcarraldo, pp. 240, £12

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