{"id":30499,"date":"2024-10-14T21:34:28","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T01:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=30499"},"modified":"2026-05-07T21:46:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T01:46:05","slug":"joshua-cohen-my-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2024\/10\/14\/joshua-cohen-my-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Joshua Cohen: “My Camp”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“My Camp”<\/strong><\/span>
by Joshua Cohen<\/span>
from the October 21, 2024 issue of The New Yorker<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few years ago Joshua Cohen won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The <\/em>Netanyahus<\/i>. I really enjoyed it, and so I’m glad to have something new by him in this week’s New Yorker<\/em>. Clearly the title is meant to evoke a notorious book, and Cohen certainly doesn’t mind pushing buttons and making folks uncomfortable. I’m not sure what to expect. This first paragraph isn’t helping:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Human nature, yes. Nature nature, no. I know nothing about it. A rose is a rose is my tradition, but then feelings lead us outside tradition, they lure us beyond it, and I feel nature deeply. I feel its lack of interest in me, its lack of humanity jibing with my inner emptiness; I like how its trees come together to make a forest that shows me how to breathe, and how its boulders show me how to concentrate. I’m content having these immature, idealizing poetic-romantic emotions about the great outdoors and don’t want to know anything more, chiefly because I’ve always regarded the outdoors as a refuge from knowledge — a haven of ignorance to feel to whenever the city news runs me down.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I’ll have to read that again to follow it better, but that’s okay! I still like it! Please share your thoughts below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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