"[15] Isaac Bashevis Singer commended Ann Frank Remembered as "Beautifully written".

[16] Fiet's Vase, Gold's collection of Holocaust survival accounts, was described by one reviewer as having "language as transparent as pure water";[17] according to another reviewer, each story "reads like a miracle, a silver chalice excavated from dust.

The Los Angeles Times observed that "so much is fabricated in Clairvoyant that anyone who reads it unaware of the real lives of James and Lucia Joyce will be led far off the mark".

[19] However, Irish author Padraic O'Farrell described Clairvoyant as "brilliantly innovative and movingly written".

[20] According The Times Literary Supplement, Gold's most recent work, the autobiographical Found and Lost, "captures the rough texture of lived experience in a way that often eludes more straightforward autobiography".