Lydia Davis

Lydia Davis is the author of many collections of fiction, including, most recently, Our Strangers. She is also the author of a novel, The End of the Story, two volumes of nonfiction, Essays One and Essays Two, and numerous translations from the French and other languages.

Absolute Darkness

A curious disorientation
Lydia Davis
June 3, 2024
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Changing My Mind

On sources, revision, and order
Lydia Davis
January 1, 2020
Graphic with loaves of bread and water bottles on a black and orange background. Illustration by Laura Padilla Castellanos

Loaf or Hot-Water Bottle

Closely Translating Proust
Lydia Davis
April 1, 2004