Selected publications and projects by Jordan Silversmith.
Fiction, criticism, and translation.
Books
- Redshift, Blueshift A novel. Gival Press, 2021. Winner of the Gival Press Novel Award.
Fiction
- Vanished Gardens The Baffler, September 2026
- The Holy Grail The Archive, Sans. PRESS, February 2026
- Mirrors of Matajudíos Jewish Fiction, Issue 41, October 2025
- The Sevdah Machine Half Mystic Journal, Opus II Issue II: Sevdah, August 2025. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
- Uncle Henry Won't Take His Medication Again The Penelope Review, February 2025
Translation
- From Catatau, by Paulo LeminskiForthcoming Translated from the Portuguese. Words Without Borders, 2026
Criticism
- Surface Vibrations VAN Magazine, October 2026 — on Steinway pianos
- International Contemporary Ensemble at TIME:SPANS I Care If You Listen, August 2026
- The Body That Carries VAN Magazine, April 2026 — on Aïda Nosrat and Ashkan Behzadi
- What the Garden Remembers Asymptote, March 2026 — Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, Three Stories of Forgetting, translated by Alison Entrekin
- The Sun and the Skeleton Asymptote, February 2026 — Roberto Bolaño, Posthumous Stories
- No One All the Way Down Asymptote, December 2025 — Luigi Pirandello, One, None, and a Hundred Grand
- Mapping the Invisible Asymptote, November 2025 — Mia Couto, The Cartographer of Absences
- The Disappearing Monument VAN Magazine, October 2025 — William Basinski's The Disintegration Loops, a quarter-century on
- To Keep the Shimmer Alive Asymptote, August 2025 — Christian Morgenstern, The Gallows Songs
- Democracy of Dreams VAN Magazine, July 2025 — on the lullaby
- acts of translation: The Sounds of Home in Alejandra Banca's From Savagery ANMLY, September 2024
- acts of translation: Grammars of Servitude in Quincas Borba ANMLY, July 2024
- acts of translation: Makings of Americans — the Galaxies of Haroldo de Campos ANMLY, May 2024
- Strange Realities in The President and the Frog Chicago Review of Books, August 2021
Also a regular contributor to Asymptote's What's New in Translation column. Complete archives: Asymptote · VAN Magazine · I Care If You Listen
Poetry
- Praxis Slippery Elm, 2020. Winner of the Slippery Elm Prize in Poetry.
- Thanksgiving SurVision, Issue 13, 2023
Interviews
- In Search of the Self in Redshift, Blueshift Interviewed by Jen St. Jude, Chicago Review of Books, October 2021