“I Have Decided Not to Die”

Armenian Golgotha, by Grigoris Balakian. Knopf, March 2009. $35 Black Dog of Fate: A Memoir, by Peter Balakian. Basic Books, February 2009. $16.95 paper In April 24, 1915, someone knocked on Grigoris Balakian’s door in Constantinople (as the [...]