[citation needed] She compiled African Myths and Tales, published in New York in 1963 under her maiden name, and wrote her first novel, Divorcing, in 1969.
[11] In 2003, the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research in Berlin, Germany, established an archive for Taubes's work, describing her life as a “story in which Jewish exile meets female intellectualism.” An intellectual biography of Taubes by Christina Pareigis was published in 2020,[12] and the New York Review of Books reissued Divorcing the same year to appreciative reviews.
[13] In 2023, the New York Review of Books published Taubes’s novella Lament for Julia for the first time in addition to nine short stories.
She left numerous literary texts, most of them unpublished, as well as years of correspondence with Jacob Taubes and other prominent figures of philosophy and religion.
Most of this estate was discovered years after her death, and transferred to Berlin in 2001, where Sigrid Weigel established the Susan Taubes Archiv e.V.