In 2015 it was reported that Krauss had signed a $4 million deal with HarperCollins to publish her next two works: a novel, and also a book of short stories. The novel is entitled "Forest Dark" and was published in 2017. Francesca Segal, writing in the "Financial Times", describes it as a "richly layered tale of two lives" that explores "ideas of identity and belonging – and the lure of the Tel Aviv Hilton". The novel's title is derived from the opening lines of Dante's "Inferno", as translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The collection of short stories, "To Be a Man", was published in 2020.