An honorable mention from the Washington Post for ‘The Structure Is Rotten, Comrade’ from their “best graphic novels, memoires, and story collections of 2019… that combine uncommon originality, plotting, and artwork.” – Michael Cavna https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/the-best-graphic-novels-memoirs-and-story-collections-of-2019/2019/11/20/447e7f76-0722-11ea-8292-c46ee8cb3dce_story.html

https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2019/autumn/nota-benes-autumn-2019 Written by Viken Berberian and illustrated by Yann Kebbi, The Structure Is Rotten, Comrade is a painfully beautiful book both visually and prosaically. In this groundbreaking graphic novel, the grand ambitions of the individual collide with the chaos of revolution. Fueled by a love of cement and passionate ambition, an aspiring architect must brave the pandemonium ...

Writer and essayist Viken Berberian is no stranger to satire. His upcoming graphic novel with illustrator Yann Kebbi takes an acerbic look at the myth of progress, skewering the venal and corrupt interests that lie behind a concrete-obsessed architect in Armenia’s capital city, Yerevan. Starts at 5:00 minutes into Monocle’s podcast. Release date is end ...

https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/07/26/the-art-of-falling/

‘Armenia’s Bad Week for Autocrats,’ my essay in the New York Review of Books http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/05/01/armenias-bad-week-for-autocrats/

‘Democracy is Held Back,’ my op-ed in the New York Times

https://bombmagazine.org/articles/the-mattress/

https://mondediplo.com/2008/02/16nowhere

«First-novelist Berberian, a New Yorker, has somehow—the somehow is actually highly skilled writing—managed to create a believable world in the mind of a young man about to end the lives of hundreds of innocents in what can no longer be called an unbelievable act. Berberian’s anonymous narrator is a young half-Druse (remember them from the Lebanese catastrophe?) ...

https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/paso-doble-le-grand-entretien-de-lactualite-culturelle/yann-kebbi-et-viken-berberian Yann Kebbi et Viken Berberian sur France Culture: le grand entretien de l’actualité culturelle par Tewfik Hakem, Paso Doble, podcast, avril 21, 2017.