Everyone would admit that the truth by nature is naked, but is it really beautiful? ...
Jul 28, 2021
Is Truth Beautiful?
Jul 22, 2021
“What is Woman?” by Hagop Baronian
Since the creation of the world, this creature alone has never changed its primordial nature....
Jul 20, 2021
“Woman” by Ler Kamsar
Translated here for the first time, a hilarious and haunting article by the greatest Armenian writer you've never heard of, Ler Kamsar....
If questioned, the satirist should be able to say "This is wrong because________" or "That is stupid because________"; and then generalize....
Jul 07, 2021
An Ambiguous Blur: Ethics and Satire, Part 3
When author Jack Antreassian, writing in the year before I was born, astutely observed that the image of Armenians in the U.S. was “a blur, and even the amorphous shape of the blur is without readily identifiable characteristics” (251), he attributed this to the following causes. Most Armenian Americans at that time were thrust there violently due to massacres and deportations at the hands of the Turks. They were few in number in a vast land, and they never fully invested in the new country because they were still psychologically tied to the old, even entertained hopes of one...
Jul 02, 2021
The Rule of Feasting: Ethics and Satire, Part 2
From the beginning until now, the only consistent principle I can find governing Armenian behavior is feasting. The ubiquitous banquet halls and their glut of food and drink that spring up wherever Armenians settle, far from being a new development, extends as far back as the available historical record. Herodotus in the late 5th century B.C. calls Armenians πολυπρόβατοι (polyprobatoi) that is, “rich in sheep”...