Josh Billings

Josh Billings is a writer, translator, and nurse who lives in Farmington, Maine.

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 Mickiewicz....

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FICTION

POETRY

“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.”...

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LITERARY CRITICISM

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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FICTION