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God’s Masterpieces
“I swear, if the air conditioning breaks down today, heads will roll.” “If you don’t like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes.” Chris Leclair, a staff writer for the Laconia Daily […]
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Book Review: Letter to Yerevan
Andranik Tzarukian Translated by Tatul Sonentz-Papazian & Rupen Janbazian Hairenik Press, 2018 119 pp. $14.95 paperback A short while ago I read about Tatul Sonentz-Papazian and Rupen Janbazian’s recent translation of Թուղթ Առ Երեւան by […]
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All the Way to Canada
I am sitting at the shore of Kınalı*. The Marmara Sea opens—serene and blue— I fling a rock into the sea. I pitch the rock—rings float on the Marmara— I pitch the rock—new rings form […]
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Book Review: Mr. Five Per Cent
Mr Five Per Cent: The Many Lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, the World’s Richest Man Jonathan Conlin Profile Books, 2019 416 pp. $24.31 hardcover As the title suggests, there is more than one Calouste Gulbenkian portrayed […]
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Karanian’s ‘Armenian Highland’ a Touchstone to the Past
Matthew Karanian was about eight years old when he asked for his first camera—a vintage Brownie from his father. “Back then, we were using film,” he recalled one afternoon during a visit to the Hairenik […]
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Book Review: The Thirty-Year Genocide
The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of its Christian Minorities 1894-1924 Benny Morris and Dror Ze’evi 2019 656 pages, Harvard University Press $24.74, hardcover We Armenians have reached a point in the history of our nation when […]
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Book Review: The Genocide of the Greeks in Turkey
The Genocide of the Greeks in Turkey: Survivor Testimonies From The Nicomedia (Izmit) Massacres of 1920-1921 Kostas Faltaits Translated and edited by Ellene S. Phufas-Jousma and Aris Tsilfidis Prologue by Tessa Hofmann New York: Cosmos […]
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Book Review: The Naked & The Nude
The Naked & The Nude: A Nonfiction Novel Pete Najarian Berkeley, CA: Regent Press, 2017 The Naked and the Nude: A Nonfiction Novel (2017) by Pete Najarian is the third in an autobiographical trilogy which […]
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Book Review: My Name is Revenge
My Name is Revenge: A Novella and Collected Essays Ashley Kalagian Blunt Spineless Wonders, 2019 156 pp. I have three criteria for judging a book. First, it must follow the “show not tell” principle; I […]
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Nostalgic for Pain
In 2017, the Columbia Artists/Teachers (CA/T) program at Columbia University embarked on what may rightly be regarded as a pedagogical experiment: an online writing class that connected Masters in Writing candidates from Columbia University with […]