About

Rémy Joseph Roussetzki writes novels, essays, and short fiction. His work returns obsessively to a small number of questions: how intelligent people mistake fascination for truth, what sons inherit from fathers who were never quite present, and what it costs to have been a willing participant in something that went wrong.

His books move between Paris, New York, Lima, the Caribbean, and the South Bronx. The settings change; the questions don’t. Across seven titles — fiction, autofiction, essay, and thriller — he has been circling the same territory from different angles, building what he thinks of as a single body of work rather than a series of separate books.

The novels in the Josephine diptych — A Willing Instrument and Sacrifice, Now — examine complicity and self-deception in the world of a cyberterrorist movement. Out of the Fatal Loop follows a son into the Caribbean in search of a father he barely knew, and finds the same failures repeating across three generations. The essays in The Last Freedom ask what remains of the self when algorithms have predicted everything else.

The thread running through all of it: the gap between what we know and what we allow ourselves to do with that knowledge.