Baret Magarian

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Baret Magarian is a British-Armenian novelist and essayist. He is currently working on a novel about artificial intelligence and on a thriller set in the Mojave Desert. His critically acclaimed monologue Le Manuscrit will be performed in the fall at the Théâtre du Temps in Paris by Roberto Zibetti. His story “The Portal in Lisbon”—first broadcast by BBC Radio 4 and read by Edmund Kingsley—was selected for inclusion in The Salt Anthology of Best British Short Stories (forthcoming).

  • Photo of the village of Oia

    The Analog Serenade of Santorini

    November 2024
    Baret Magarian
    Photo of the village of Oia by Baret MagarianThough Santorini is a place where the sensory gets top billing, it’s an island of sweeping contrasts. After an extended stay, Baret Magarian explores its h…
  • A black and white photo of a man using a cane staring at the buildings in an otherwise empty city

    The Italian Quarantine

    March 23, 2020 Baret Magarian
    Photos by Pierpaolo Florio A novelist living in quarantine in Florence looks back at Italy’s cultural history and then forward, considering whether something positive might rise from the ruins th…
  • The cover to Melting Point by Baret Magarian

    Melting Point by Baret Magarian

    Baret Magarian
    Norfolk, United Kingdom. Salt Publishing. 213 pages.   The fourteen stories in this provocative collection critique postmodern culture, whose social hierarchies and commodity capitalism, fed by “blood…
  • Photo by Brook Ward (Flickr.com/brookward)

    The Meltdown

    January 2016
    Baret Magarian
    Photo by Brook Ward  (Flickr.com/brookward) Some years ago a diabolical fire, triggered by lightning, ravaged Donmark cathedral. It was a terrible tragedy, though fortunately no lives were lost and n…