Ara Baliozian
A Review of Jerusalem: The Biography
Jerusalem has been called many things, among them “a golden goblet full of scorpions,” and “an old nymphomaniac who squeezes lover after lover to death, before shrugging him off with a yawn” (Amos Oz). One [...]
continue reading »Armenians in Books
Two Armenian writers quoted and discussed in John Updike’s High Gossip: Essays & Criticism (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 502 pages. 2011) are William Saroyan and Nina Berberova who has a great deal to say [...]
continue reading »A Review of Yes, We Have
We cherish our celebrities because they enhance our self-esteem. If they can make it in the odar world, so can we. Even as a child, when I knew little or nothing about Armenians (except for [...]
continue reading »Bobelian’s Children of Armenia
The Turks claim Armenians have succeeded in doing what no other nation in the history of mankind has ever dared to do: they have invented a genocide and believed in it for a century.
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