Movie Review: If Only Everyone
If Only Everyone is a thoroughly post-Soviet Armenian film. It’s written in two languages, Armenian and Russian (three, if you count Karabakhi Armenian), with a Soviet soundtrack and a plot
Red Dog Howls Revisits Armenian Genocide, Leaves Questions
One day, someone must explain to me the imagery of dogs in Armenian genocide-themed art. First, Peter Balakian’s “Black Dog of Fate,” and now, a red dog that howls in
The Princess and the Piroshki
I am reminded of the time when we took our cousins from California to tour Brighton Beach—the mini-Soviet Union of Brooklyn, New York. We stopped to get piroshki (Russian fried
Pineapples & Lezhankas: Memories of my Grandmother
My grandmother, Arus, was born in 1930 in a poor village in Meghri, Armenia. She was only four years old when her wealthy uncle from Tbilisi came to visit. The