NOW WITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY NORMAN EISEN AND E. DANYA PERRYThe man the New York State Attorney General credited with inspiring her prosecution of Donald Trump — New York Times number one bestselling author Michael Cohen — tells the behind-the-scenes story of what can happen to you — and what really happened to him — when a President who believes himself to be above the law decides to go after his critics . . . .When Michael Cohen's...

Jewish Afghan families immigrate through Iran to Israel and America in hostile wartimes.Accompany the author, Michael Cohen, on his self-made spiritual voyage through historic generations. In this novel, he charmingly depicts the fascinating journey among different cultures and the three major monotheistic western religions.Michael Cohen travels from his beloved kingdom of Afghanistan; to Israel with his family to serve the army in the homeland of his faith...

The man the New York State Attorney General credited with inspiring her prosecution of Donald Trump — New York Times number one bestselling author Michael Cohen — tells the behind-the-scenes story of what can happen to you — and what really happened to him — when a President who believes himself to be above the law decides to go after his critics . . . .When Michael Cohen's secret payoff to porn star Stormy Daniels on behalf of Donald Trump made Cohen look...

Winner, 2014 IP Rolling Picks Best Creative Non-fiction A Compulsion to Kill is a dramatic chronological account of 19th-century Tasmanian serial murderers. Never before revealed in such depth, the story is the culmination of extensive research and adept craftsmanship as it probes the essence of both the crimes and the killers themselves. Beginning in 1806 with Australia’s first serial killers, John Brown and Richard Lemon, A Compulsion to Kill recounts the stories of Alexander Pearce, ‘th...

Cohen's subjects in A Place to Read can be as commonplace as golfing with close friends, amateur astronomy, birding, or learning to fly at the age of sixty. But he asks difficult questions about how we are grounded in space and time, how we are affected by our names, how a healthy person can turn into a hypochondriac, and how we might commune with the dead. And throughout he measures, compares and interprets his experiences through the lens of six decades of reading.Read w...

Dr Dolan’s book details the intimate lives of four Iranian women, their struggle with drugs and the daily grind they faced in their personal lives. Surprisingly, Iran responded well to its AIDS crisis but forgot to include female drug users. While Dr Dolan delivered training to Iranian prison doctors, she met women who were addicted to drugs and were desperately in need of treatment. With her health professional colleagues in Iran, she set out to establish the first drug treatment clinic f...

In this essay collection, Michael Cohen presents the odd idea of the suicide note as a writing project that can be critiqued like any other, describes encounters with illegal border crossers in south Texas, and ponders the sudden popularity of books about atheism. Books are a frequent subject here, and Cohen makes an argument for The Maltese Falcon as the Great American Novel, searches for the perfect, the Platonic, nature handbook, and compares playing golf to reading about it. R...

Solomon Schechter (1847–1915), the charismatic leader of New York's Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS), came to America in 1902 intent on revitalizing traditional Judaism. While he advocated a return to traditional practices, Schechter articulated no clear position on divisive issues, instead preferring to focus on similarities that could unite American Jewry under a broad message. Michael R. Cohen demonstrates how Schechter, unable to implement his vision on his own, turned to his disciple...

Une société, réduite à six personnages, se fissure de l'intérieur, s'abîme, implose doucement. Six personnage en quête d’espoir, de repère, d’amour... Pour survivre, il va falloir, comme aux échecs, sacrifier une pièce maîtresse. Mais laquelle?Après «les Abîmés» et «Le soleil est rare (et le bonheur aussi)», Michaël Cohen nous livre à nouveau, avec humour et lucidité, son regard sur une génération perdue qui se heurte à la difficulté d’aimer.

Quatre jeunes gens d'environ vingt-cinq ans, un peu désorientés, un peu désaccordés, un peu perdus, un peu sans repères, sans équilibre, quelquefois même sans espoir, mais qui rêvent continuellement du bonheur. Les voici prêts à se briser, et pourtant prêts à réapprendre, prêts surtout à aimer, car Michaël Cohen, auteur et comédien, humoriste des plus tendres, a décidé de croire à l'amour.Après « les Abîmés » ; « Le soleil est rare (et le bonheur aussi) » et "Le sacrifice du ch...

Un homme et une femme, une soeur, deux amis. C'est d'abord l'histoire d'un jeune couple. Ils vivent ensemble depuis peut-être un an ou deux et, malgré tout, gardent en eux chacun un secret que l'autre ignore. Un jour, inévitablement, ces deux secrets vont surgir et envahir leur existence. On se trouve peut-être à Paris, à Marseille ou ailleurs. On est peut-être en l'an deux mille ou six mille ou dix mille même. Ce qui est sûr, c'est qu'on parle comme on vit. Sans savoir ce qu'on va dire. S...

First published in 1998. The professional diagnosis of ADHD can often be alarming and worrisome for parents who are trying to cope with their child's behavior problems. The Attention Zone: A Parents' Guide to Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder is an accessible and practical book that provides parents with facts, advice, and guidance on raising children with ADHD: It covers such basic concerns as the causes and symptoms of ADHD; the effects of ADHD on families; school and home managem...