'Joshua Cohen's MOVING KINGS is a lit fuse, a force let loose, a creeping flame heading for demolition, and Cohen himself is a fierce polyknower in command of the workings of the moving parts of much of the human predicament. A master of argot and wit, he writes the language of men in a staccato yet keening idiom of his ... Read moreown invention. And though it is set in a grungy New York, call this the first Israeli combat novel ever dared by an American writer.' - Cynthia Ozick, author of FOREIGN BODIES 'Joshua Cohen is a blacksmith who heats, hammers and molds the language to sharpest, most precise points. Not for the sake of craft, but to tell a troubled story about troubled life in the twenty-first century. This is a dazzling and poignant book.' - Rachel Kushner, author of THE FLAMETHROWERS Praise for BOOKS OF NUMBERS 'More impressive than all but a few novels published so far this decade ... a wheeling meditation on the wired life, on privacy, on what being human in the age of binary code might mean ... [Joshua] Cohen, all of thirty-four, emerges as a major American writer.' - Dwight Garner, NEW YORK TIMES 'A hugely ambitious novel set in the high-tech world of now ... a verbal high-wire act, daring in its tones and textures:clever, poetic, fast-moving, deeply playful, filled with jokes, savvy about machines, wise about people, dazzling and engrossing.' - Colm Toibin, GUARDIAN Show Less