Making ‘The Armenian Highland’
Eight or nine soldiers, or maybe they were ten, greeted me with cold stares as I got off the Turkish Airlines plane and walked across the tarmac. Each of them wore camo and each of […]
Eight or nine soldiers, or maybe they were ten, greeted me with cold stares as I got off the Turkish Airlines plane and walked across the tarmac. Each of them wore camo and each of […]
The Missing Pages The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript From Genocide to Justice Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh 2019 436 pp. Stanford University Press The story of my new book The Missing Pages: The Modern Life […]
DETROIT—Susan Kadian-Gopigian was born and raised in Delray – a sprawling “neighborhood” of European immigrants with a large Armenian community. It was the new home for Armenians who survived the Ottoman Turkish massacres, which forced […]
Feast of Ashes The Life and Art of David Ohannessian By Sato Moughalian 2019 440 pp., Redwood Press $21.88 hardcover Feast of Ashes is a historian’s book, packed with detail, new information and useful illustrations. […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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