Episode 19: The Gendarme & the Armenian Ghosts of Anatolia
Some stories don’t live in books. They live in bodies, in shadows, in silence.

In this episode, we move through the fragmented memory of the Armenian Genocide — beginning with The Gendarme by Mark T. Mustian, a novel about guilt, repression, and what resurfaces at the end of a life. We then turn to Armenian Golgotha, the harrowing memoir of priest and survivor Grigoris Balakian. Finally, we reflect on Remnants: Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide by Elyse Semerdjian, which traces the history written not in ink, but on skin, in scars, in absence.

This isn’t just a history lesson. It’s a reckoning with the weight of survival — and the stories that refuse to stay buried.