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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Seamstress of Ourfa Victoria Harwood Butler-Sloss Armida Publications, 2018 Here, at last, is a book about strong Armenian women. Victoria Harwood Butler-Sloss has written the story of her maternal family’s origins in Ourfa, a […]
LOS ANGELES, Calif.— Sosé & Allen’s Legacy Foundation recently announced the online release of Rupen Janbazian’s Western Armenian translation of two of William Saroyan’s short stories free and available to the public. The Saroyan in […]
The Ruins of Ani Krikor Balakian Translated and with an introduction by Peter Balakian and Aram Arkun New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2019 pp.121. The new edition of The Ruins of Ani by […]
Secret Nation: The Hidden Armenians of Turkey Avedis Hadjian I.B. Tauris, 2018 592 pages Avedis Hadjian’s writing is so beautiful and touching that reading the introduction to his new book “Secret Nation” brought tears to […]
The Armenian Highland: Western Armenia and the First Armenian Republic of 1918 312 pages Stone Garden Press (2019) Matthew Karanian is well known for his stunning photography books on Armenia, the Caucasus and eastern Turkey. […]
Talaat Pasha: Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide Hans-Lukas Kieser Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2018 532 pp. $39.95 hardcover Hans-Lukas Kieser, previously based in Switzerland and now residing at the University of Newcastle in […]
The Ruins of Ani: A Journey to Armenia’s Medieval Capital and its Legacy Krikor Balakian Translated and with an introduction by Peter Balakian and Aram Arkun Rutgers University Press: New Brunswick, New Jersey and London, […]
One century ago, on April 22, 1919, my grandfather placed a classified advertisement in the Hairenik, the leading Armenian language newspaper in the United States. His message was simple, and it was direct. I am […]
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