Topic: Books

FRANKFURT — The annual Frankfurt Book Fair represents a cultural highpoint in Germany, as authors, publishers, booksellers, literary agents, and booklovers from around the world gather to honor one country’s[...]

NEW YORK — In vivid, poetic prose, Nancy Kricorian’s latest book, The Burning Heart of the World tells the story of a Beirut Armenian family before, during and after the[...]

The anniversary of the expulsion of Armenians from Artsakh just weeks ago was met with sadness and mourning, political disputes, and attempts to identify those to blame for the catastrophe.[...]

To offer a first ever high school elective course that requires students to translate a hitherto untranslated 19-th century Armenian language satirical text into English while fully aware of the[...]

Of all the tomes written about the Armenian Genocide, none has had such a profound effect on me than this newest volume by Elyse Semerdjian, Remnants, published in 2023 on[...]

The Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) announced this week that Talar Chahinian’s Stateless: The Politics of the Armenian Language in Exile (Syracuse University Press, 2023) and Ari Şekeryan’s The Armenians[...]

NEW YORK — Tarkmaneal Press recently announced the release of An Early-Eighteenth-Century Hmayil (Armenian Prayer Scroll): Introduction, Facsimile, Transcription and Annotated Translation by Matthew J. Sarkisian, edited and with a[...]

VENICE — Rouben Koulaksezian’s name is known to many Armenians, especially in diaspora. Born in 1989 in Paris, to an Armenian father and a French mother, Rouben studied at the[...]

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[...]

By Claire Armitstead LONDON (The Guardian) — In Elif Shafak’s latest novel, a single raindrop rises and falls through millennia. In Nineveh, in the seventh century BC, it lands on[...]