Fiction
Literary Corner
Reviews
Book Review: Letters to Barbra
As a reader who had the chance to read the manuscript before publication, I thank Paul Chaderjian for letting me into the world of “Adam Terzian”—a world in which the past, the present, and the […]
Literary Corner
Book Release: ‘Bloodied, but Unbowed’
In this memoir, author Alice Nazarian tells the story of her parents and family in the shadow of the Armenian/Assyrian Genocide. Her father, Ashur Yousuf, a prominent Assyrian intellectual and professor at Euphrates College in […]
Memoir
Excerpt from the New Memoir, ‘Liminal,’ by a Baku Pogrom Survivor
Idaho-based Armenian-American activist and entrepreneur Liyah Babayan, a native of Baku, has released her first book, Liminal: a refugee memoir. Based around journal entries written by her at a young age and documenting her family’s […]
Reviews
Three Independently Published Books Not to Be Overlooked
These recently released titles were produced outside of mainstream publishing mechanisms. They remind us that Armenians can and should avail themselves of alternatives in order to achieve publication, avoid censorship and tell their stories as […]
Memoir
I Was a Star Student in Armenia—Then I Left
There was pain in the upper eyelid and redness inside the eye. At four in the morning, I was alone in a washroom, looking deep into my eyes through a large and limpid mirror. There […]
Art
Armenia! at the Met: Fabulous, Albeit Complete Failure
This article appeared in the blog Armeniaca on December 1, 2018. A distinguished art historian and well-known specialist of Byzantium, Helen Evans has been working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for many years. Among […]
Literary Corner
The Genesis and Early Development of the Armenian Missionary Association of America
This volume is a timely celebration of the Centennial of the Armenian Missionary Association of America (AMAA), authored by a uniquely qualified church historian, minister and theologian. Reverend Vahan Tootikian is a teacher of the […]
Poetry
Memoir
Macy’s Day Parade in Artsakh
I’ve never been to the famous Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City, but the closest I’ve felt to it was in the courtyard of a house in Stepanakert. Even though I wasn’t on […]