ADOLF HITLER KEPT a bust of Ataturk in his office. Heinrich Himmler considered moving to Turkey in the early 1920s. And Rudolf Hoess,...
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The forward trenches in the hills just beyond the abandoned village of Talish, in Nagorno-Karabakh, are reminiscent of World War I: long, endless,...
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For most of America, the heartbreaking faces of Syrian refugees this year have belonged to children. We have seen them drowned and we...
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Today I am in Manhattan. This morning I am at St. Vartan, the magnificent Armenian Cathedral on Second Avenue, for the Divine Liturgy....
1 Comment |A child brings two heavy buckets of water into the home of a strange old woman and discovers there a wall of cages...
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A woman I met last month in southeastern Turkey is going to die, probably sometime soon. Asiya’s death will not be covered by...
2 Comments |HERE’S THE setup: A Coca-Cola bottle falls from a low-flying airplane over an undeveloped corner of Africa. How undeveloped? The local tribesman who finds...
1 Comment |Writing about The Sandcastle Girls in a recent issue of The Armenian Weekly, reviewer Wendy Plotkin concluded, “”The scope of The Sandcastle Girls is almost...
Leave a comment |Booklist weighed in this week on “The Sandcastle Girls,” calling the novel “powerful and moving,” and concluding, “It will leave you reeling.” So,...
Leave a comment |Publishers’ Weekly weighed in on “The Sandcastle Girls” this week and I couldn’t be more grateful — given how important this book is...
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