
Richard Howard's review in the Los Angeles Times Book Review
John Banville's Review in The Guardian
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"Looking at Poussin" in the Threepenny Review
"Village Scribe" in The New Yorker
"Church Fathers" in Bookforum
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Click here to view a pdf of Rachel Cohen's bibliography
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Rachel Cohen has written for The New Yorker, The Guardian, The London Review of Books, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, Slate, Parnassus, The Threepenny Review, McSweeney's and other publications, and her essays have been anthologized in the Pushcart Anthology and in Best American Essays. Her book, A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists was published in 2004 by Random House in the US and the UK, and Adelphi in Italy, won the PEN/Jerard Fund Award and was a finalist for the Guardian First Book Prize and the PEN/Martha Albrand First Nonfiction Award. Cohen has been a fellow of the New York Foundation for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, and Breadloaf, and is a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities. She teaches undergraduate and graduate students in the writing program at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Queens. She is currently at work on a biography of Bernard Berenson for Yale University Press.
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