Topic: Book Reviews
Robert Mgrdich Apelian’s graphic novel Fustuk (“pistachio”) takes a fascinating look at an imagined episode in Parskahye or Armenian-Iranian history, while providing a fun overview of some of the culinary[...]
Hachig Kazarian’s Western Armenian Music: From Asia Minor To The United States (The Press at California State University, Fresno, 2023) is a valuable contribution to the debate over the notion[...]
“It is simply in the nature of the Armenian to study, to learn, to question, to speculate, to discover, to invent, to revise, to restore, to preserve, to make, and[...]
In her latest book, author and reporter Muriel Mirak-Weissbach pays tribute to — or better yet sets the record straight regarding — Otto Liman von Sanders, a German general who[...]
Sadness permeates Hovik Afyan’s 2020 debut novel, Red (translated from Eastern Armenian by Nazareth Seferian). The characters in this dark tale inhabit a world of gloom, palpable anguish weighs everything[...]
To Go On Living: Stories (Plough Publishing, 2025) is the portrait of a community fighting for survival. More than the story of the individual characters we meet in its thirty-one[...]
By Vahram Ter-Matevosyan In From Earthquake Tragedy to Beacon of Light, Dr. Armen Der Kiureghian offers a moving, meticulously detailed and profoundly inspiring account of how the American University of[...]
Armen Melikian’s 2023 novel, Expraedium, is a beguiling piece of work, part Joyce, part Orwell, part Pynchon, with a smattering of Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange thrown in for good measure.[...]
Seasoned French political scientist Julien Zarifian has published a thoroughly researched and thought-provoking book that analyzes the Armenian Genocide exclusively from the perspective of the United States. Titled The United[...]
Mountains, create a breeze, Find peace for my soul, Take me to my home, Take me home, take me home. – Lyoka Even when the return is to unlivable conditions[...]