The persona in Lory Bedikian’s recently published collection of poems, Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body (University of Nebraska Press, 2024), is angry at the world that “has/the nerve to move us from room[...]
While major upheavals such as the recent fall of Artsakh or the destruction of Gaza and the millions of persons displaced globally continue to threaten humankind, Kristin Anahit Cass offers[...]
Imagine that words are no longer a prerequisite to translating, typically understood to be the reworking of a text from one language into another to create an equivalent of the[...]
Ashot Haykazun Grigoryan, author of the recently-published Christian Armenian Architecture and the Influence of the Pre-Christian Culture (Zangak, 2023), defines architecture as the art of building as only symbols can[...]
A sense of doom almost governs the lives of the characters in Siran Seza’s Shattered Lives (Yearbook, Inc. 2015), a novel set in Constantinople (present-day Istanbul) during World War I.[...]
Armenian Wonderwomen, published in an Author’s Edition in Yerevan, Armenia, in 2023, gives us a glimpse into the lives of 37 Armenian women, both historical and contemporary, who have defied[...]
Book of Genesis (Yearbook, Inc. 2014) by Siran Seza is the story of Astine, the daughter of an upper middle-class Armenian family living in Constantinople (present-day Istanbul), a cosmopolitan city[...]
GLENDALE — Seeroon Yeretzian appeared on the art scene in Los Angeles upon graduating from the prestigious Otis/Parsons Art Institute and School of Design with a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine[...]
Even though increasingly doubtful and scared, the internationally acclaimed photojournalist Anush Babajanyan from Yerevan, Armenia, kept returning to that “special place” whenever she could, “partly because Armenians, like me, lived[...]
One leaves Aida Zilelian’s All the Ways We Lied (Keylight Books, 2024) with the comfort of knowing that the Manoukian sisters, Kohar, Lucine and Azad, each unhappy in her own[...]
The world of Trashland (Nauset Press, 2023) is a world of doom and gloom. A garbage dump and a cemetery, separated by a narrow dirt road, and a nearby lunatic[...]
