The Literary Review
  • Read
  • Submit
  • Subscribe
  • Archive
  • About
current issue

Looking Backward

Selections from the TLR Archive

Toggle navigation

An International Journal of Contemporary Writing

cover of the archive issue, type over picture of porcelain sailor boy
Subscribe

Categories

  • Books
  • Coming of Age
  • Editor's Letter
  • Essays
  • Fiction
  • Poetry
  • TLR SHARE
  • Wonder
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Author Archives: Josh Billings

A Review of a thousand morons by Quim Monzó

January 1, 2018

Josh Billings

Translated from the Catalan by Peter Bush (Rochester, NY: Open Letter, 2012) Quim Monzó’s a thousand morons is a flat book, and this can be either a good or a bad thing depending on which of its stories you’re reading. … Continued

A Review of My Struggle: Book One by Karl Ove Knausgaard

April 23, 2015

Josh Billings

Translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett (Brooklyn, NY: Archipelago Books, 2012) Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle is one of those rare books that appears at first to be failing miserably at what a novel is supposed to do, but then … Continued

A Review of Daniel Stein, Interpreter by Ludmila Ulitskaya

March 26, 2015

Josh Billings

Translated from the Russian by Arch Tait (New York, NY: Overlook Press, 2011) Miracles abound in Ludmila Ulitskaya’s new novel, Daniel Stein, Interpreter. Early on, Daniel Stein—a young Polish priest who has been forced to become a translator for the … Continued

© 2023 The Literary Review