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Author Bio. Rachel Cohen has written essays for The New Yorker, The Guardian, The London Review of Books, Apollo, The New York Times, The Nation, The Threepenny Review, The Believer, McSweeney’s and other publications, and her essays have been anthologized in Best American Essays and in the Pushcart Prize Anthology.
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?
Rachel M. Cohen is a policy correspondent for Vox covering social policy. She focuses on housing, schools, homelessness, child care, and abortion rights, and has been reporting on...
Rachel Cohen. Professor of Practice in the Arts. rachelcohen@uchicago.edu. Taft 304. A.B. Harvard University, 1994. Teaching at UChicago since Teaching at Chicago since 2016. Biography. I write essays that draw on biography, art history, the lyric essay, literary criticism, and memoir.
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. Her essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, The London Review of Books, and The New York Times, among other publications, and her work has been included in Best ...
Jul 21, 2020 · Alongside global Covid-19 and racial injustice, Rachel Cohen’s memoir about seven years spent reading Jane Austen may seem a welcome diversion or a silly distraction. Cohen herself, a reader of...
Jul 21, 2020 · In the turbulent period around the birth of her first child and the death of her father, Rachel Cohen turned to Jane Austen to make sense of her new reality. For Cohen, simultaneously grief-stricken and buoyed by the birth of her daughter, reading Austen became her refuge and her ballast.
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?
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.
Rachel Cohen. Professor of Practice in the Arts. rachelcohen@uchicago.edu. Taft 304. Website. A.B., Harvard University, 1994. Research Interests: Writing about the Arts, Migration, Writing about Reading, Writing Lives. Synopsis. I write essays and books that draw on biography, art history, the lyric essay, literary criticism, and memoir.
