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DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. In the new novel The Netanyahus, the American writer Joshua Cohen offers a fictionalized version of a real-life visit to an American campus by the father of former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Our critic-at-large John Powers says the book, which is just out from New York Review Books, pulls off the neat trick of being a genuinely funny book about genuinely serious things. JOHN POWERS, BYLINE: The current political environment may be nirvana for social media zealots. But for novelists, it s a sinkhole. Even as they hope to engage in today s hot public debates, they struggle to turn such engagement into fiction that doesn t preach to the choir or feels dated the moment it s published. These pitfalls are neatly avoided by Joshua Cohen s The Netanyahus, which is subtitled An Account Of A Minor And Ultimately Even Negligible Episode In The History Of A Very Famous Family. Riffing freely on a true story, this brilliant and hilar

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