Viken Berberian

Writing in @GrantaMag @nybooks @nytimes @ForeignAffairs / Titles: La Structure est Pourrie, Camarade @ActesSud / The Cyclist / Das Kapital @simonschuster

[Viken Berberian @TheFrunzik]

I wrote about comics and manga for @thenation and the difficulty of getting my kids to read Kafka. Thank you to my editors @ddguttenplan and @ludwighurtado, @tomgauld @bdangouleme @klg19 @fantagraphics @EikeExner, Ann Simon and "Boris the Potato Child." https://t.co/Ku7TfvjBIy

[Foreign Affairs @ForeignAffairs]

“The first time my family self-isolated, I was 8 years old. The impetus was not a viral outbreak but the start of heavy fighting in west Beirut.” Viken Berberian writes about reading comics in lockdown, from his childhood in Lebanon to today’s pandemic:
https://t.co/AZjt48pqfp

[Viken Berberian @TheFrunzik]

@BorisDralyuk What about Simenon, one of the great exporters of Belgian crime fiction?

[Viken Berberian @TheFrunzik]

Mathias Enard à propos "LA STRUCTURE EST POURRIE, CAMARADE" de Viken Berberian et Yann Kebbi dans LE MONDE @ActesSud https://t.co/4xXS4TAdyr

[Viken Berberian @TheFrunzik]

I am thrilled to share that I’ve signed with @mcsweeneys to complete my translation of Sabyl Ghoussoub’s autofiction Beyrouth-sur-Seine, originally published by Éditions Stock in France in 2022 and recipient of the Prix de Goncourt des Lycéens. Deeply grateful to McSweeney’s and @villa_albertine whose translation grant made this project possible.

[Viken Berberian @TheFrunzik]

@edwinheathcote Will you see the @Couvent_Eveux stuck somewhere in the 1950s and 60s? It's a stone's throw away, maybe three.

[stjohnsphoto @stjohnsphoto]

Harold Feinstein #photography
Window Washer, 1974

[Viken Berberian @TheFrunzik]

@atanessi @BBCWorld Malevich is referenced in one of my short stories (not yet published), but I may have to reshape it with this revelation. In 2019, we saw the following at @CentrePompidou I hope they were originals: https://t.co/V9Qo9J9fzK

[лисовська лежить /ᐠ..ᐟ\ @olilisowska]

12. The structure is rotten, comrade — Viken Berberian, Yann Kebbi (ілюстратор)

Раніше вона належала публічній бібліотеці Денвера, і це прям вишенька на торті:3

[Eye On Axis @eyeonaxis]

From “Méditerrannée” series. Marseille, France, 1998

Raymond Depardon

[Viken Berberian @TheFrunzik]

On the Road Again with Garine Torossian #marseille @PantheonBooks @APublicSpace @editionsinculte @DandQ

[Grigor Atanesian @atanessi]

"These are some big-ass birds," said an American tourist upon seeing pelicans in St James's Park the other day

[The Paris Review @parisreview]

We at the Review mourn the loss of Alice Notley (1945-2025). In celebration of her life and work, we’ve unlocked her Art of Poetry interview, along with her poems, from our archive.

https://t.co/wit4fULnwR

[The New York Review of Books @nybooks]

Sophie Pinkham on the films of Kira Muratova https://t.co/jFUew0AoUn

[Boris Dralyuk @BorisDralyuk]

https://t.co/EHCbALsbdJ

[Viken Berberian @TheFrunzik]

"There was a time when our neighbors paid a premium for our glorious fruits, but somewhere along the way, the terms of trade moved against us, and the world became more interested in the terror we produced." The Cyclist, 2002, a novel @apublicspace @Shaptonia

[Viken Berberian @TheFrunzik]

''Wayne instructed the trade desk to raise cash and prepare for a sharper fall.'' Fiction as a leading indicator: https://t.co/CkG7oJ98jV
@Nouriel @nntaleb @NYerFiction @holdengraber
@fantagraphics @simonschuster @TobyLichtig - from Das Kapital, a novel, illustration @Shaptonia

[Charlotte Mandell @avecsesdoigts]

The inside of a man is a subway, there are levels and more levels—the lower down you go the more disgusted you get, but there are still vending machines at the lowest level, with chocolates, little treats, candies…

--Céline, London

[Viken Berberian @TheFrunzik]

“Climate change and causality: a comparison of chatbot-generated and student written essays”. Heading to the land of semiotician Juri Lotman to present our findings at the 9th DHNB conference in Estonia: https://t.co/juhF6DtxTt Who will win? @OpenAI, @ChatGPTapp or us trifling humans? @sama

[Synekura Audio @synekura_audio]

Vintage Polish matchbox labels

[Viken Berberian @TheFrunzik]

I wrote about the transformation of a medieval town for Kometa (hors-série) that threatens to rival Brooklyn and Berlin. Thank you to my editor @HaydeeSaberan Also in this issue, Andreï Kurkov @AKurkov Osman Kavala, Valérie Manteau, Robert Guediguian @RGuediguian and Leos Carax