Josh Billings

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

Idylling: On Wesley McNair’s “Late Wonders”

Josh Billings reviews Wesley McNair’s “Late Wonders: New and Selected Poems.”...

POETRY

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....

FICTION

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....

PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION

A Polish Snow Globe: On Adam Mickiewicz’s “Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania”

AROUND THE WORLD

FICTION

POETRY

“I Don’t Want To Grow Up”: On Oliver Ready’s “Persisting in Folly: Russian Writers in Search of Wisdom, 1963–2013”

AROUND THE WORLD

LITERARY CRITICISM

Monsters of Translation: On Arno Schmidt and Sasha Sokolov

AROUND THE WORLD

FICTION