Topic: Book Reviews

The poems in Perla Kantarjian’s debut poetry collection You Must Become Field (Bad Betty Press, 2026) have an urgency that can only come from a heart that carries within itself[...]

Ably translated by Margarit Ordukhanyan, Ruben Filian’s 1979 novel The Ambassadors of Your Country brings Armenian history to life in ways both odd and wonderful. Written by one of Armenian[...]

Chris Bohjalian’s latest novel, The Amateur, takes place during the late 1980s in the upscale suburb of Tallmadge  — a fictional town based, one assumes, on places like Rye or[...]

The image of “the steadfast mountain, unmoved by the sound and fury of an individual destiny,” a reference to the celebrated Beat writer Jack Kerouac and his novel Desolation Angels,[...]

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[...]