--- title: Review: Joshua Cohen's Moving Kings description: Moving Kings is the story of a modern-day King David canonical: https://time.com/4856224/the-moving-spirit/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-13T10:35:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T16:32:17.049Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Review: Joshua Cohen's Moving Kings og:description: The novel tells the story of a modern-day King David og:url: https://time.com/4856224/the-moving-spirit/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt312d6bba8fbb7c4b/6988d5737cdbac519dd592d6/moving-kings-joshua-cohen.jpeg?branch=production&width=1120&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1120 og:image:height: 630 og:image:alt: moving-kings-joshua-cohen og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Review: Joshua Cohen's Moving Kings twitter:description: The novel tells the story of a modern-day King David twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt312d6bba8fbb7c4b/6988d5737cdbac519dd592d6/moving-kings-joshua-cohen.jpeg?branch=production&width=1120&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Review: Joshua Cohen's _Moving Kings_ > Sponsored content. 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And though the characters may not be particularly erudite, Cohen’s writing is filled with sharp turns of phrase and elegant rhythms. David is “local color, just out of his locale,” at a high-society party: “They probably thought he was physically tough. They probably thought he was in with the mob.” Cohen’s cadence is inflected with Hebrew, a language that David defines as “the speech of the beleaguered, the last exasperation before a spanking.” And a spanking is coming for David and his family. An Israeli cousin and his army friend come to work for David in New York, moving boxes but also evicting African Americans who’ve defaulted on their mortgage payments. 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