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The End of Romance, coming on February 3rd, 2026 from Viking, follows a woman who, after escaping a bruising marriage, theorizes that happiness is possible solely with the eradication of all romance–only to find a love that could change her life forever.

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2024

Told in three distinct voices, Short War brings together a rapturous teenage love story set in Chile, the hunt for the author of an eye-opening literary detective story, and a complex reckoning with American political intervention in South America.

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The Invisible Years
2026
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The Shy Assassin
2025
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The Hidden Island
2025
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Ice for Martians
2023
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Little Bird
2021
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Letter from D.C.
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The World Chaim Grade Lost
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On Catherine Lacey's bad novel-memoir
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On Deborah Baker’s Charlottesville and the roots of American fascism
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On Mafalda, comics’ smartest six-year-old
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On Princess Diana’s undying mystique
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On Han Kang’s ghosts
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On Dinaw Mengestu and D.C. literature
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On Claire Messud’s This Strange Eventful History and ways of writing the past
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On Delmore Schwartz and being an American Jewish writer
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On Jennifer Croft’s The Extinction of Irena Rey and translation debates
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On Lydia Davis and rejecting Amazon
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On Sara Gallardo’s January and the abortion plot
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On Ariel Dorfman’s The Suicide Museum and missing Salvador Allende
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On Rachel Ingalls and eternal faith in men
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On two new translations of the Polish-language poet Zuzanna Ginczanka
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On Jim Jarmusch’s Ghost Dog and when meaning doesn’t matter
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On Luiz Schwarcz’s The Absent Moon and not interpreting everything
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On the trouble with Nona Willis Aronowitz’s Bad Sex
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On Lydia Millet’s Dinosaurs and keeping familiar modes fresh
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On the paths translated literature takes to U.S. publication
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On Elisa Shua Dusapin’s The Pachinko Parlor and the fuzzy edges of language
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On Tove Ditlevsen and translating genius
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On The Murders of Moisés Ville and stories of Jewish victimhood
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On David Kurnick and the Bolaño mystique
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On Amia Srinivasan and useful feminism
Other Writing
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On eager vs. reluctant translation
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On Damion Searls and reading like a translator
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On translating Little Bird, in LitHub
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On translation and selfishness
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On Career & Family and the gender pay gap
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On love and translation