Monthly Archives: October, 2010
Thao Nguyen Music Video directed by Glee’s head cheerleader
Giving the organization, Oxfam America, exclusive world premiere rights Thao Nguyen releases her new music video for "Body" off her second release "Know Better...
2 Viet Am Films @ the San Diego Asian Film Fest
At the 11th annual San Diego Asian Film Festival that kicked off on October 21st, a screening entitled “Young and Restless” featured two shorts...
Like the fading of a dream: Thuận’s ‘Chinatown’
Chinatown is Thuận’s second novel; her first to be translated into French, and published by a major French publisher, Le Seuil, in early 2009. Chinatown...
A Second Review of Linh Dinh’s Love Like Hate
In 2021, it came to our attention that the featured writer, Linh Dinh, has expressed anti-Black, anit-Semitic, and overall harmful views since the publication...
Empowerment or Exploitation? Sexuality in Để Mai Tính
diaCRITICS will periodically have guest blogs. Here's one about the sexual politics of Để Mai Tính/Fool for Love from Lee Ngo, a third-year Ph.D. student...
Việt Lê: ‘boy bang’ at Java Gallery in Phnom Penh
–Exhibition opening with special guest band Cartoon Emo:Thursday, November 4, 20106pm exhibition opening & 7:30pm concertFREE Artist talk: 5:30pm Sunday, November 7Java Gallery – 56 Sihanouk Blvd, Phnom Penh, Cambodia–Việt Lê,...
A Review of Monique Truong’s Bitter in the Mouth
diaCRITICS will periodically have guest blogs. Here's one from Stephen Sohn, professor of English at Stanford University, where he is completing a manuscript on Asian...
Trần Anh Hùng’s ‘Norwegian Wood’: A Preview
Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood concerns a young university student’s encounters with love, death, and loss in 1960s Japan, as he is torn between his...
Linh Dinh reads for DVAN in San Francisco
In 2021, it came to our attention that the featured writer, Linh Dinh, has expressed anti-Black, anit-Semitic, and overall harmful views since the publication...
The Frogs Are Gone: Viet Nam Literature Seminar 2
Don't strain your weak eyes looking
The frogs are gone from their bushes
The yellow lizards are watching
The bugs are there, creeping
The flies and ants and...