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 [...]

‘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 [...]

Two separate incidents that claimed the lives of 7 men from the ranks of Armenia’s armed forces during the last days of July have stirred emotions, criticism, and outrage, and have led to the dismissal of 8 military officers and the demotion of 13 others.
Edik Baghdasaryan: 'Our one major achievement since independence is the army–it [...]

Sen. Barbara Boxer’s (D-Calif.) the decision to delay Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s consideration of Matt Bryza’s controversial nomination as U.S. ambassador to Azerbaijan is the latest chapter in a 20-year history to ensure a balanced U.S. policy toward the Caucasus region that respects the right of the people of Karabagh to self-determination.
Sen. Barbara Boxer
Her years [...]

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 [...]

On Oct. 8, 2008, the United Nations General Assembly requested the International Court of Justice to provide an advisory opinion on the question, “Is the unilateral declaration of independence by the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government of Kosovo in accordance with international law?” The question was narrowly framed by the General Assembly, and the court’s advisory [...]

When you live with someone the better part of a year, you become attached. It was that way with a cadre of Armenian Catholic priests, some toting white beards with a stately presence.
Three seminarians are ordained into the priesthood in 1960 at the Vienna Mekhitarist Church.
It was also evident with two traveling colleagues—Aram Karibian (Cranston, [...]

By Krikor Pidedjian
As long as God gives human beings the strength and capability to work—and thereby, provide for their families and their families’ required needs for a pleasant life—along with possibilities and a special awareness of helping or sharing his bread with needy compatriots, I would ask from these fortunate and blessed people to help [...]

Any person who has spent time in Armenia will have a story—or seven—to recount. I find that, in all my years in the country, I have come across some pretty interesting occurrences. All right, maybe “interesting” is too broad a word to use, but such mini-adventures in the Homeland can be anything from simply funny [...]

Exactly three years ago, I had written an article about the dark side of life in Armenia entitled, “A Conversation with Myself.” A brutal and fatal attack on an old man for a few thousand dollars and the death of a little girl by a speeding motorist had triggered the torrent of emotions that ran [...]