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The Good Wood: On Matthew J. C. Clark’s “Bjarki, Not Bjarki”
Josh Billings reviews Matthew J. C. Clark’s “Bjarki, Not Bjarki: On Floorboards, Love, and Irreconcilable Differences.”
Josh Billings
Josh Billings is a writer, translator, and nurse who lives in Farmington, Maine.
Articles
Making History Sing: On Vera Mutafchieva’s “The Case of Cem”
Josh Billings reviews Bulgarian author Vera Mutafchieva’s historical novel “The Case of Cem.”
The Real Unrealists: On Andrey Platonov’s “Chevengur”
Josh Billings reviews the new translation of Russian author Andrey Platonov’s classic novel “Chevengur.”
Studies in Heresy: On the Intimate Translations and Translated Intimacies of Bruno Schulz
Josh Billings details the challenges of translating the great Polish writer Bruno Schulz.
Idylling: On Wesley McNair’s “Late Wonders”
Josh Billings reviews Wesley McNair’s “Late Wonders: New and Selected Poems.”
Hard to Be a Dad: On Adrian Nathan West’s “My Father’s Diet”
Josh Billings tucks into “My Father’s Diet,” a novel by Adrian Nathan West.
Magical Thinking: On Mikhail Epstein’s Expansive History of Recent Russian Thought
Josh Billings surveys Mikhail Epstein’s monumental survey of late and post-Soviet thinkers.
A Polish Snow Globe: On Adam Mickiewicz’s “Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania”
Josh Billings revels in Bill Johnston’s “meticulous” translation of “Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania” by the great Polish poet Adam...
“I Don’t Want To Grow Up”: On Oliver Ready’s “Persisting in Folly: Russian Writers in Search of Wisdom, 1963–2013”
Josh Billings finds good sense in Oliver Ready’s “Persisting in Folly: Russian Writers in Search of Wisdom, 1963–2013.”
Monsters of Translation: On Arno Schmidt and Sasha Sokolov
Josh Billings wrestles with translations of the “untranslatable” novels of Arno Schmidt and Sasha Sokolov.
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