Two Month Review #7.5: Radiant Terminus (Chapters 14-16)
Tobias Carroll (Transitory,聽Reel) joins Chad and Brian to talk about the latest installment of聽Radiant Terminus. These three chapters get聽wild, as Schulhoff (who mysteriously disappeared shortly after his marriage to Hannko, Solovyei's daughter) returns and tries to get Ilyushenko to kill him. And then the never-ending ...
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Two Month Review #7.4: Radiant Terminus (Chapters 9-13)
Rhett McNeil joins Chad Post and pinch-hitter Kaija Straumanis to talk about the first half of part two of聽Radiant Terminus, "Ode to the Camps." From recounting Chad's latest Volodine-inflected dream to a discussion of the ways various ideologies (fairy tales, anarcho-capitalism, Marxism-Leninism) play out in the novel, to ...
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Two Month Review #7.3: Radiant Terminus (Chapters 4-8)
This week, former TMR guest Rachel Cardasco returns to talk about speculative fiction in translation, various allegories for聽Radiant Terminus聽(current political climate,聽The Tempest,聽The Bible), who dreams the dreamer, the patriarchy and Maria Kwoll's feminist post-exotic texts, steampunk technology, spider dreams, and ...
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The End (Part VIII, IX, Epilogue, Pgs 237-281)
Last week, Chad and Brian (welded at the hip) were joined by 鈥淪tiliana Milkova鈥:https://www.oberlin.edu/stiliana-milkova of Oberlin College鈥檚 department of comparative literature to discuss the final moments of Georgi Gospodinov鈥檚 The Physics of Sorrow. While we learned that Chad doesn鈥檛 like Elena Ferrante, and ...
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Two Month Review: #4.09: The Physics of Sorrow (Part VIII: “An Elementary Physics of Sorrow”)
This week, Chad and Brian are joined by Stiliana Milkova from Oberlin College to talk about the final sections of The Physics of Sorrow: 鈥淎n Elementary Physics of Sorrow,鈥 鈥淓ndings,鈥 and 鈥淓pilogue.鈥 They talk about the structure of the novel as a whole, about Chad鈥檚 favorite page in the book, about aging and ...
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A Quantum Spiral by Another Name (Part VII, Pgs 201-236)
Last week, Chad and Brian were joined by Rachel S. Cordasco of Speculative Fiction in Translation as they discussed Part VII, 鈥淕lobal Autumn,鈥 of Georgi Gospodinov鈥檚 Physics of Sorrow. This section hits us from too many angles, from the relatable hilarity of having a phobia of being asked 鈥渉ow are you?鈥 to trying ...
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Catching up on Season Four of the Two Month Review
As you hopefully noticed, earlier this morning the eighth episode of the current season of the Two Month Review went live. This was the seventh straight week of talking about Georgi Gospodinov鈥檚 incredible novel, The Physics of Sorrow, which was translated from the Bulgarian by Angela Rodel. And the eighth write-up by ...
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