My Consolidated Republic of Nowhere will appear in a forthcoming (2026) anthology on borders, with contributions by Etgar Keret, Maylis de Kerangal, and Sabyl Ghoussoub. Edited by Julia Yuliya Sushytska, Alisa Slaughter, and Christian Alonso Fernandez Huerta, Both Sides Face East will be the second of a three volume series on frontiers.

“Climate change and causality: a comparison of chatbot-generated and student-written essays” in the land of semiotician Juri Lotman. Findings will be presented at the 9th Digital Humanities in Nordic and Baltic (DHNB) Countries conference in Tartu, Estonia, in March of 2025. This year’s theme is “digital dreams and practices” and the integration of traditional humanities ...

https://villa-albertine.org/va/professionals/the-2024-albertine-grants-laureates/ Villa Albertine laureates in the category of translation / non-fiction: * L’invention de l’économie française by Thomas Angeletti (Presses de Science Po), translation by Juliette Rogers *Beyrouth-sur-Seine by Sabyl Ghoussoub (Editions Stock), translation by Viken Berberian *Quand les indiens parlaient latin: Colonisation alphabétique et métissage dans l’Amérique du XVIe siècle by Serge Gruzinski (Arthème Fayard ...

Je vous écris de Dilijan, my memoir on the transformation of a medieval town is in the print edition of Kometa (hors-série, Dec. 2024): https://kometarevue.com/je-vous-ecris-de/la-moldavie-ne-va-pas-pouvoir-continuer-d-exister-comme-ca  

The story is in the June/July 2024 print edition of TLM and can be found at the London Review Bookshop. The online version can be read here: https://thelondonmagazine.org/article/fiction-request-for-a-more-complete-obituary-by-viken-berberian/  Founded in 1732, The London Magazine is England’s oldest literary periodical. The work of a vast array of writers have found a home in its pages; among them, George Orwell, ...

This talk was originally given by Professor K. Tölölyan on 6 March 2002 at an event at the Yale Club, New York City. I was told not to speak for more than fifteen minutes. Faced with this edict, my first temptation was just to read to you some of the many laudatory passages from the ...

An essay on the dominance of manga and the Angoulême comics festival: https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/manga-hulks-its-way-to-the-top/

My short story, Faint-Hearted Z, is in the London Magazine. You can read it here: https://www.thelondonmagazine.org/fiction-faint-hearted-z-by-viken-berberian/  

https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/program/calendar/event/coKbMB6 How to Use an Alvar Aalto Stool During a Revolution / Comment Utiliser un Tabouret Alvar Aalto Pendant une Révolution pour la magazine de la Bpi, Centre Pompidou: Ainsi, vous pensiez que le tabouret Alvar Aalto, à l’âge canonique de quatre-vingt-quatre ans, ne servait qu’à s’asseoir dessus? Réfléchissez un peu. Dans notre roman graphique, ...

“Armenia’s Tragedy in Shushi,” my essay for the New York Review of Books https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/12/21/armenias-tragedy-in-shushi/ “And what if Shushi, too, were to become a honeycomb in whose cells memories coexisted without vitiating or privileging one over the other? What if we included in those cells not just the names of famous women, places, fictions, and nonfictions that we ...