The fourth book of Moses is called Numbers in the English Bible, and this follows the usage of the Greek Septuagint translation. In the Hebrew it is called Bammidhbar (“In the wilderness”). The former ...

The springing up of literature festivals in every nook and cranny of the country is a good sign, but ambition may need to match content and character. The December chill was in the air as Shashi ...

Joshua Cohen's The Book of Numbers (Random House) follows the rise of the Internet through a protagonist he modeled after some of the web's biggest shapers, including Google's Sergey Brin, but mostly ...

The man who just published one of the best novels ever written about the Internet has spent less time online than almost anyone else his age. After graduating from college in 2001, Joshua Cohen lived ...

No one can accuse Joshua Cohen of being short on chutzpah. His new novel, "Book of Numbers," borrows its title from the Bible, and his creation myth about the birth of the Internet age aims to be as ...