Points of Contact: A Chinese Exile in Ancient Armenia
Was a medieval Armenian dynasty really founded by an exiled Chinese prince? Image: Tiridates III, from Illustrated Armenia and the Armenians by Ohan Gaidzakian (1898), via Wikipedia. I'm launching a new occasional series on this blog, Points of Contact. The name is inspired by A Point of Contact (1922), a (chronologically absurd) short story by Arthur Conan Doyle, in which Odysseus on his travels runs into the young David son of Jesse, future King of Israel: the series will e
Reviews: Lilith's Love and Arthur's Bosom, by Tyler R. Tichelaar
We left Tyler Tichelaar's Arthur's Children series on a cliffhanger in 1995, at the end of Ogier's Prayer. (Here I must apologise for taking so long to post this review, which was fully drafted over a year ago but slipped my mind following a house move and the birth of our second child.) It's therefore somewhat startling to find that Lilith's Love, the fourth book in the series, makes a positively leisurely start eighteen years later, in 2013. The dramatic events of the last
