Family of Shadows: A Century of Murder, Memory, and the Armenian American Dream (HarperCollins), due to be released on Sept. 21, is the focus of the following interview Rachel Goshgarian conducted with author Garin K. Hovannisian over the phone, while the latter was in Yerevan.
But you’ve got to be moved by shadows—they are poems. They [...]

LINCOLN, Vt.—Give Chris Bohjalian his family, a bicycle, and a bottle of good wine and he’s one happy fellow.
Best-selling author Chris Bohjalian has his sights set on a book about the Armenian Genocide, with a 2014 publishing timetable.
Somewhere in the mix has to be a burgeoning literary career that has sprouted 13 books, a host [...]

In his first book of poems since his highly praised June-tree: New and Selected Poems 1974-2000, Peter Balakian continues to define himself as one of the most distinctive voices of his generation. Exploring history, self, and imagination, as well as his ongoing concerns with catastrophe and trauma, many of his new poems wrestle with the [...]

‘Children of God: Storybook Bible’
By Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Grand Rapids, Michigan: ZonderKidz, July 2010, 127 pp.
Language: English
Price: $18.99
Regardless of where you and I stand on the topic of religion, Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s Children of God: Storybook Bible is worthy of praise, not only for the simple way its Nobel Peace Prize-winning author retells his 56 favorite [...]

NEW YORK—Publishing house HarperCollins has announced the September 21-Independence Day release of Garin K. Hovannisian’s debut memoir, Family of Shadows: A Century of Murder, Memory, and the Armenian American Dream. “One of modern history’s great unexamined stories,” declares David Ignatius of the Washington Post. “Family of Shadows will move you with the intensity and intimacy [...]

The Gendarme
By Mark T. Mustian
New York: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam’s Sons: 294 pp.
Publication Date: Sept. 2, 2010
Price: $25.95
'The Gendarme' is a remarkable work of fiction.
It’s April 1990. Ninety two-year-old Emmett Conn—an “American,” father, grandfather, and widower—has a pea-size brain tumor at the base of his left parietal lobe, which leaves him plagued with persistent dreams animated [...]

Rouben Galichian
The Invention of History: Azerbaijan, Armenia, and the Showcasing of Imagination
Gomidas Institute-London and Printinfo Art Books-Yerevan.
2009. In English. 112 pp.
Includes a DVD on Armenian Julfa and more than 50 color photos and maps.
$30 US and £20 UK.
Available from AbrilBooks.com, NAASR.org, Gomidas.org., and Amazon UK.
Rouben Galichian’s The Invention of History: Azerbaijan, Armenia and the Showcasing [...]

The Mekhitarist Monastery is located in the heart of Vienna, Austria, on a street named after it.
Photostat of the first Armenian book printed in Venice in 1512 by Hagop Meghabart. Take note of the striking artwork which accompanies the text.
It is here where a cadre of Armenian Catholic Fathers has gathered since the late 18th [...]

On June 9, the world woke up to headlines announcing the discovery of a single shoe in the village of Areni in Armenia. Scientists say it was from nearly 5,500 years old, placing it right at the time when Armenian mythology was born. I pondered who it may have belonged to from the gods of [...]

The National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) recently announced the publication of Armenians of Lebanon: From Past Princesses and Refugees to Present-Day Community. The volume, an undertaking of Haigazian University, is being distributed in North America by NAASR with its Armenian Heritage Press as co-publisher. The book was officially launched in Beirut on [...]