[3] Her first novel, Another Place, a Foreign City (Xargol, 2003), written in verse on the model of Eugene Onegin, became a bestseller in Israel and was adapted as a musical play by the Cameri Theater.
The same year she published The Righteous Forsaken, a play in verse, a reimagining of Griboedov’s "Woe from Wit."
Positions of Stress: Essays on Israeli Literature between Sound and History (Ahuzat Bayit, 2008) was written together with Reviel Netz.
Her recent publications are also with Xargol: five novels – Short Story Master (2009),[5][6] Suspected Dementia (2011), The Maiden of Kazan (2015),[7] Behind the Mountain (2016),[8] and All about Abigail (2021), as well as a collection of novellas, The Hebrew Teacher (2018).
The Hebrew Teacher is the first of Arad's books to appear in English, translated by Jessica Cohen and published by New Vessel Press in March 2024.