Karen F. Kanjian

Amazing storytelling - for an amazing story

Revisado: 01-21-23

Peter Balakian was able to recreate for the reader his own experience of discovery - of his family’s past and the terrifying and wonderful past of the Armenian people. The book asks: how could this genocide have happened—in full view of the world? How, in the face of the thousands of eyewitness accounts, is the silence and denial of governments entangled in geopolitical interests allowed to persist? These questions hang in the air for all of us, unanswered, like the ghosts of the unacknowledged and unburied.

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The Butterfly Effect: A Thoughtful and Well-Balanced Treatment of Internet Pornography

Revisado: 07-03-19

Jon Ronson takes a thoughtful and well-balanced look at the down-stream impacts of 24/7 live-streaming free internet pornography. Ronson approaches the subject with open-minded (and open-hearted) curiosity and empathy for the people who watch it (often children and sometimes obsessively), the people who love them, the people involved in the porn industry—the producers, the “content” (whose humanity is often not acknowledged because it makes us uncomfortable), and the people who created the technology platform that made it all possible. Hopefully Ronson‘ work will inspire honest and constructive conversations about a subject that, because it involves human sexuality, has been made difficult by misunderstanding and shame, often giving rise to hypocrisy and then silence. We, as a society of human beings who crave connection, and want our children to live in a world where the full range of healthy human connections—including sexual—are possible, need to be able to talk openly about this subject and deal with some of the unintended consequences.
Which will take not a small amount of courage.

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