Hazhir Teimourian
No Two Sides to Genocide
The Burning Tigris: A History of the Armenian Genocide
By Peter Balakian
William Heinemann 473pp £18.99 order from our bookshop
WHO, AFTER ALL, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?’ Hitler’s infamous words are emblazoned on the cover of this timely book and cause the reader to ask another question: Surely, in the 1940s, there were still millions of people alive who remembered that great crime? But then, of course, Hitler was not concerned with the feelings of ordinary people. He thought only of his fellow leaders in Europe, who seemed constantly to have put their own narrow interests before the lives of the Armenians and other peoples suffering at the hands of Turkish despots and Muslim fanatics in the Ottoman Empire.
Sign Up to our newsletter
Receive free articles, highlights from the archive, news, details of prizes, and much more.@Lit_Review
Follow Literary Review on Twitter
'The relish with which we made for beaches, hills and dales as soon as the most stringent restrictions were lifted suggests a widespread craving for contact with the natural world not met by a brief turn around the local park.'
https://literaryreview.co.uk/those-dark-satanic-hills
Perception is a weird thing. Lawrence Durrell saw Hydra as a ‘great horned toad’ but Henry Miller thought it resembled a ‘huge loaf of petrified bread’. Niko Ghika painted it as a series of neat white and orange squares.
https://literaryreview.co.uk/the-call-of-the-wine-dark-sea
The minimalist Fumio Sasaki 'confesses that as he began to purchase fewer consumer goods, his meals shrank in size. He decluttered and lost weight. Accumulation is not just an economic way of life but a form of embodiment too. Enlightenment is reduction.'
https://literaryreview.co.uk/gardens-of-emptiness