Josh Berson

writes fiction and essay, makes marks on paper and other suitable substrates, and occasionally releases baffling works of procedural noise. More

For counsel, speaking, etc write.

August 2025

The Meat Question appears in China. My heartfelt thanks to the translator, Zhang Xiangyang, to Jiangsu People’s Publishing, and to the Berggruen China Center.

The Human Scaffold

Fascinating. —Gillian Tett, Financial Times ¶ Looks directly at the questions I love reading about but from a different set of intellectual traditions than I’m used to. —Abe Burmeister, co-founder, Outlier ¶ Anthropology for the twenty-first century. —Elizabeth Chin, editor-in-chief, American Anthropologist

The Meat Question

A thorough, imaginative, and compelling rebuttal of the pervasive argument … that meat consumption is central to human existence. —Choice

Computable Bodies

2016 PROSE Award, Language and Linguistics