Jordan Silversmith

Novelist · Critic · Translator — New York

New “Vanished Gardens,” fiction in The Baffler

I write fiction, criticism, and translation.

My novel Redshift, Blueshift won the Gival Press Novel Award. Recent fiction has appeared in The Baffler and Jewish Fiction, and criticism in Asymptote, VAN Magazine, I Care If You Listen, and the Chicago Review of Books.

I am at work on the first English translation of Paulo Leminski's Catatau, an excerpt of which is forthcoming from Words Without Borders, and on a novel.

Now — October 2026

Reading

  • Collected StoriesWilliam Faulkner
  • EmbalseCésar Aira
  • Confessions of a Born-Again PaganAnthony T. Kronman

Listening

  • Homage to Charles ParkerGeorge Lewis
  • Purple Moonlight PagesR.A.P. Ferreira
  • Songs for the Poor ManRemmy Ongala & Orchestre Super Matimila