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Book Review: The Dreamt Land

August 27, 2019 at 5:05 pm Nareg Seferian 0

The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California By Mark Arax 2019 576 pp., Knopf $21.23 hardcover For two summers in a row, I had the privilege of acting as an interpreter for a […]

Book Review: Feast of Ashes

July 24, 2019 at 8:32 pm R.P. Sevadjian 0

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. […]

Book Review: Letter to Yerevan

July 3, 2019 at 6:41 pm Daron Halajian 1

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 […]

Book Review: Mr. Five Per Cent

June 27, 2019 at 11:01 am Nareg Seferian 2

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 […]

Book Review: The Thirty-Year Genocide

June 19, 2019 at 9:12 pm Gilbert Bilezikian 0

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 […]

Book Review: The Genocide of the Greeks in Turkey

June 19, 2019 at 8:36 pm Alexander Kitroeff 0

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 […]