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....JOSH BILLINGSFICTION
Magical Thinking: On Mikhail Epstein’s Expansive History of Recent Russian ThoughtJosh Billings surveys Mikhail Epstein’s monumental survey of late and post-Soviet thinkers....JOSH BILLINGSPHILOSOPHY & CRITICAL THEORY
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....JOSH BILLINGSAROUND THE WORLDFICTIONPOETRY
“I Don’t Want To Grow Up”: On Oliver Ready’s “Persisting in Folly: Russian Writers in Search of Wisdom, 1963–2013”JOSH BILLINGSAROUND THE WORLDLITERARY CRITICISM