RaveBOMB MagazineMoving Kings is without a doubt his most mature and consistent work to date. While familiarly pyrotechnic — Cohen’s balls-out neologisms and Yiddish-inspired compoundnouns abound — the novel packs a significantly lighter dose of the high-PoMo decadence and revenge-of-the-nerds sadism that have made his past prose so indigestible ...a streamlined, entertaining, and timely meditation on the instability of identity ... Through three protagonists, Cohen exposes the profoundly different ways in which individuals can relate to a culture they supposedly share ... The play between fission, in the form of Cohen’s deconstructive take on Jewish identity, and fusion, in his polemic equation of gentrification with occupation, grants Moving Kings a complexity that saves it from heavy-handedness.
