At a British Library exhibition on British-Armenian history, Naneh Hovhannisyan reads labels—and reads between them. In this piece of creative nonfiction, she offers a personal response to a major cultural event for British Armenians, reflecting on cultural visibility, diaspora memory and the ambiguities of collective loyalty and representation.

Philip Marsden’s “The Crossing Place: A Journey Among the Armenians” is atmospheric, gripping and revelatory. It delves into the seemingly exclusive club of a nation at the meeting point of cultures, writes Naneh Hovhannisyan.