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In 2023, ROGER COHEN and a team of New York Times reporters were awarded a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and a George Polk Award in Foreign Reporting for their coverage of the war in Ukraine. Cohen is the Paris bureau chief and a former op-ed columnist for The New York Times, where he began working in 1990. He has also worked for the Times as bureau chief in Berlin and in the Balkans, where he covered the Bosnian war and received the Eric and Amy Burger Award from the Overseas Press Club of America. His columns twice won the Society of Publishers in Asia's Excellence in Opinion Writing Award. He was named foreign editor the day before 9/11 and oversaw Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the aftermath of the attack. He has also worked as a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and Reuters. In 2021, he received the Legion d'Honneur from the French Republic-France's highest order of merit-for his work over four decades. His previous books include The Girl from Human Street, Soldiers and Slaves, and Hearts Grown Brutal. Born in Britain to South African parents, he is a naturalized American. He lives in Paris.
Roger Cohen's columns are never less than cogent and well informed but his writing has another quality too, a wistful, even elegiac, lyricism which means that this collection will endure long after the political issues it addresses have been forgotten. -Sigrid Rausing, editor of Granta There's surely no-one to compare with Roger Cohen for the combination of intelligence, eloquence and breadth of lived experience that he brings to his articles and columns. But it's a more elusive quality that keeps me hungering for his commentary. Partly it's the sheer, restless intensity of his urge to bear witness, whether from hot wars or peaceful uprisings, from remote migrant camps or bastions of global power, from desecrated landscapes or places of still unruined beauty. But it's also his willingness to situate himself in the midst of any given crisis, not just as an observer, but as a human being with his own history, his own complex feelings, his capacity for pleasure as well as indignation, above all his passionate attachment to the values of tolerance, decency and individual dignity, in the face of dimming prospects for all three. Here, along with a superb selection of pieces from the last fifteen years, is an extended introductory essay in which he maps out the contours of this 'Age of Undoing' with brilliant lucidity, while tracing his own remarkable journey across its fault lines. I can't imagine a better guide to the reality of our times. -James Lasdun, author of The Fall Guy Roger Cohen's unfailing moral compass is on full display in these elegantly written, deeply considered essays. The only political columnist who can quote Donald Trump and Wislawa Szymborska with equal ease. Cohen investigates the space from truth to beauty and back again, telling us all we need to know. -Ruth Franklin, author of Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life Roger Cohen takes it all on. History, hatred, war, Trump. He's a deeply-traveled reporter, distinguished author, and, here, a newspaper columnist. Cohen claims the title 'citizen of the world' proudly, and its breadth is the key to his kaleidoscopic insight. -William Finnegan, author of Barbarian Days
