The Fiercely Despairing Fiction of Susan Taubes Written out of the traumas of exile and marriage, her novel “Divorcing” captures a divided self.

Reading Susan Taubes’s fiction can be uncanny: Mired in the morbid worlds she conjures, a reader is liable to feel feverish. Her stories blur reality and hallucination, cut by moments of crisp ...

Susan Tauues. (Courtesy of Ethan Taubes) The question of why writers write is a lot like the question of why people marry, which is to say, it is the eternal question of why human beings knowingly ...

Susan Taubes’s newly reissued novel “Divorcing” introduces an untethered and remarkably modern protagonist.

David Rieff discusses “Divorcing” by Susan Taubes, an autobiographical novel with phantasmagoric components: the reimagined end of a marriage. Now republished by New York Review Books, it was first ...

The American novelist Susan Taubes drowned herself off the coast of East Hampton in 1969 at the age of 41. She had suffered from severe depression for a long time, but many friends thought the ...

Susan Taubes’s autobiographical novel only put on the record what was widely known about Jacob’s penchant for adultery, which did not exclude friends’ wives.

This tantalizing and surprising posthumous novella from Taubes (Divorcing), who died in 1969, is presented here with several of her short stories, all hovering around similar themes of isolation ...

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