Josh Billings lives in Farmington, Maine. He edits Rustica, a literary and arts magazine dedicated to the new pastoral.
Josh Billings
Articles
Beautiful Losing
Josh Billings wonders about Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff’s new novel “Your Name Here.”
Gazing into One’s Own Head
Josh Billings reviews German author Michael Lentz’s novel “Schattenfroh,” newly translated by Max Lawton.
The Superfluous Man Redux
Josh Billings reviews Russian author Konstantin Vaginov’s newly translated novel “Goat Song.”
All My Small Things
Josh Billings reviews Helen Garner’s “How to End a Story: Collected Diaries, 1978–1998.”
Trapped in America: On Morgan Talty’s “Fire Exit”
Josh Billings reviews Morgan Talty’s debut novel “Fire Exit.”
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.”
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 Mickiewicz.
“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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