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"Armenian Golgotha: A Memoir of the Armenian Genocide, 1915-18" by Grigoris Balakian
Special to the Tribune"Armenian Golgotha: A Memoir of the Armenian Genocide, 1915-18" By Grigoris Balakian Translated by Peter Balakian with Aris Sevag Alfred A. Knopf. 509 pp. $35 Armenian Golgotha is the astonishing memoir of Father Grigoris Balakian (1876-1934), a work...Tags: Armenia, Assault, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Colleges and Universities, Witnesses
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Hans Fallada is resurrected in the U.S.
The early years, before he was old enough to understand the extent of the destruction unfurling around him -- these are the ones Ulrich Ditzen likes to remember. He was just a kid at the time, no more than 4 or 5, and his family lived in a farmhouse in...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Radio Industry, Australia (movie), Firearms, Behavioral Conditions
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Yann Martel and his allegorical menagerie
Jacket CopyAt the Festival of Books on Sunday, Michael Silverblatt launched his discussion with Yann Martel by addressing the elephant in the room: “Beatrice and Virgil,” his third book, received an enormous bandwidth of critical response, some ecstatic and some... -
Paperback Writers: Greek myth is hip, so is Richard Milward's new novel
Dino Buzzati: "Poem Strip" (NYRB Classics)
This is weird, wild, wonderful. Dino Buzzati was a luminary of the Italian avant-garde around the middle of the last century. His writing started out as straightforward realism but moved toward Gogol and Kafka....Tags: Arctic Monkeys (music group), The Holocaust (1934-1945), Paul Auster, Murder, Qur'an
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The stage is set
Second of a two-part look at Tony nominations.
With Broadway showing renewed energy this year, thanks to a surge of quality across the boards, upcoming nominations for the 60th Tony Awards figure to generate plenty of conversation — and not just...Tags: London Theatre, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Martha Plimpton, Bars and Clubs, Stephen Campbell
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The fate of nations
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterApril 23, 2008 Like its author -- or, more precisely, because of him -- historian and commentator Tony Judt's new book is by turns fascinating, edifying and frustrating. As a university professor at New York University and head of that school's...Tags: Islam, International Military Interventions, Colleges and Universities, France, Europe
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Shiver me timbers R.L. Stine, author of the beloved "Goosebumps" series of creepy, crawly stories, is heading to "HorrorLand." The ghoulish theme park will be the springboard for 12 new tales, with Scholastic Books planning to release the first two...Tags: No Country for Old Men (movie), Kevin Young, Mount Vernon Place, Lyndon B. Johnson, Bars and Clubs
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The Truce
FOR THE TIMESFriday April 24, 1998 Suddenly the war is really over. And as the news percolates through the mess hall at the Red Army's camp for displaced persons, a Russian soldier prances onstage with a saber, Auschwitz survivors dance "Cheek to Cheek," and...Tags: Comedy (genre), Movies, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Italy, Death
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Classical review, MusicNow concert at Symphony Center
Tribune music criticThe season's fourth and final MusicNow concert Friday night at Symphony Center said goodbye to Buntrock Hall, the bare gym-like performance space from which these increasingly popular concerts of contemporary music will relocate to the more inviting...Tags: Aaron Copland, Helmut Lachenmann, Music Industry, Music, Concerts
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'The Grey Zone'
Times Staff WriterThere is little doubt that everyone involved in the making of "The Grey Zone," a film about Jewish prisoners forced to man the gas chambers and crematoriums at Auschwitz, had the best of intentions when they embarked on this project. That holds especially...Tags: Steve Buscemi, Mira Sorvino, Society, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Celebrities
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