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 reviews Matthew J. C. Clark’s “Bjarki, Not Bjarki: On Floorboards, Love, and Irreconcilable Differences.”
Josh Billings reviews Bulgarian author Vera Mutafchieva’s historical novel “The Case of Cem.”
Josh Billings reviews the new translation of Russian author Andrey Platonov’s classic novel “Chevengur.”
Josh Billings details the challenges of translating the great Polish writer Bruno Schulz.
Josh Billings reviews Wesley McNair’s “Late Wonders: New and Selected Poems.”
Josh Billings tucks into “My Father’s Diet,” a novel by Adrian Nathan West.
Josh Billings surveys Mikhail Epstein’s monumental survey of late and post-Soviet thinkers.
Josh Billings revels in Bill Johnston’s “meticulous” translation of “Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania” by the great Polish poet Adam...
Josh Billings finds good sense in Oliver Ready’s “Persisting in Folly: Russian Writers in Search of Wisdom, 1963–2013.”
Josh Billings wrestles with translations of the “untranslatable” novels of Arno Schmidt and Sasha Sokolov.