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Rachel Cohen is a professor and an essayist who has written for various publications and won several awards. Her books include Austen Years, A Chance Meeting, and Bernard Berenson: A Life in the Picture Trade.
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Rachel Cohen is the author of Austen Years, a memoir in five novels, and Bernard Berenson, a biography of the art critic. She has also written essays on art, literature, and culture for various publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Apollo Magazine.
A Chance Meeting: American Encounters will be reissued by NYRB Classics March 19, 2024 "Summer of Cezanne" is the latest entry in the Frederick Project, a notebook of entries begun in March of 2020 using photographs taken in museums, galleries, and in public places over the last ten years.
Jul 21, 2020 · Rachel Cohen shares her personal and literary journey of reading Jane Austen's novels during a turbulent time in her life. The book combines memoir, criticism, and biography, and explores themes of grief, family, and imagination through Austen's works.
Mar 19, 2024 · Rachel Cohen’s A Chance Meeting is a dazzling group portrait that offers a striking new vision of the making and remaking of the American mind and imagination from the Civil War to the Vietnam War. How does the happenstance of daily life become history?
Jul 24, 2020 · Rachel Cohen is the author of three books of nonfiction, most recently Austen Years: A Memoir in Five Novels, which was published by FSG in 2020 to critical acclaim.
Rachel Cohen is an essayist and cultural critic, who writes about history, literature, and the arts. Her essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Guardian, London Review of Books, New York Times, Threepenny Review, Believer, and McSweeney’s, and have been anthologized in the Pushcart Prize Anthology and in Best American Essays.