Nicole Krauss

The National Book Award finalist explores contemporary gender realities in a collection of short fiction that traces the experiences of diverse characters at various stages of life. With sons and lovers, seducers and friends, husbands lost and regained, or husbands who were never husbands at all, how many men can a woman's lifetime hold? What does it mean to be a man and a woman together; or a man and a woman, once together and now apart? Krauss's...

The lives of four strangers are thrown into chaos over an enormous, stolen desk, including an antique dealer in Jerusalem, a man in London, and an American novelist who inherited it from a poet and victim of Pinochet's secret police.

Join bestselling author Nicole Krauss to discuss her upcoming new novel, Forest Dark, an intellectual, humorous, provocative book exploring life and God through the eyes of two Americans lost in Tel Aviv. Krauss will be interviewed by National Humanities Medalist, novelist and philosopher Rebecca Goldstein (Plato at the Googleplex). With a performance from the novel by Emily Skeggs (Fun Home).

A budding writer flees the Nazis unharmed but arrives in New York too late to marry his sweetheart. Brokenhearted, he becomes a locksmith (the source of lovely metaphors) and puts down his pen for 57 years. Unknown to him, his lost novel, called The History of Love was published years ago in Chile under a different man's name. When a stranger asks a widow to translate The History of Love from Spanish for an exorbitant sum, the mysteries deepen, particularly...

"The new book by one of the best contemporary English-language writers Nicole Krauss (The History of Love, Forest Dark) is a collection of stories that turns into a single work as you read. Her characters are men and women, young and old, parents and children, people whom the reader finds at turning points in their lives, which they have been waiting for for years, sometimes without realizing it. And all the most important things happen in glances,...

Anthony Doerr and series editor, Heidi Pitlor, select twenty stories that represent the best examples of the form published in 2018.