In these deeply European novellas, the title alone raises the temperature. Mr. Cohen is one of those few writers―there are never enough―whose every new book makes the kind of news real readers relish.
Arthur Allen Cohen, M.A. (Philosophy, University of Chicago, 1949; B.A., U. Chicago, 1946) was a novelist, publisher, art critic, and Jewish theologian. He briefly studied at both Hebrew University and Union Theological Seminary before beginning doctoral work at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, where he studied medieval Jewish philosophy until 1951, leaving completing his Ph.D.