Topic: Book Reviews

By Gayane Barseghyan Special to the Mirror-Spectator The second and expanded edition of the book, Azeri Aggression against Armenians in Transcaucasia, Reports from the U.S. Press (1905-1921) (Yerevan, 2023), by[...]

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[...]

Subtitled “Armenian-American Culture and Politics in the Twentieth Century,” Benjamin Alexander’s historical study sheds interesting light on events that shaped immigrant life in America for both survivors of the Armenian[...]

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[...]

As in the best mysteries, Rumor of Evil by Gary Braver (Goshgarian), does not just chase a murderer. Instead, the book presents a mélange of the past and the present,[...]

With his “The best translation of/darkness is a victory flag,” Arthur Kayzakian divests the victory flag of its connotations of glory and joy and makes the book of redacted paintings[...]

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves—there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. Joan Didion Long one of the most thought-provoking Armenian-American[...]

small pieces (Dalkey Archive Press, 2023) is truth distilled to its purest essence. Through conversations, spoken and unspoken, over distance and in time, two women, a writer and an artist,[...]

“This is it, Iskender, efendi. The end,” Aram Bohjalian, an old friend of the Agha Boghos family, tells his buddy as the Turks capture the Armenian quarter in Ourfa and[...]

By Prof. Tessa Hofmann Special to the Mirror-Spectator Writing about genocide is one of the greatest literary challenges, especially when it involves one’s own or family experience. Most often, the[...]