Yearly Archives: 2010
Review of Để Mai Tính (Fool for Love) Premiere
A Review of Ðể Mai TínhBy Jade HidleThe Garden Grove premiere of director Charlie Nguyen’s latest film Ðể Mai Tính (translated to Fool for...
rock paper salt : the art work of christine nguyen
These works speak of great bionetworks that exist outside the ecosphere of human discord. Multilayered recyclable structures, hovering villages, spiny geologic minerals, thrashing primordial microbes, imaginary plants and...
Luke Nguyen in Viet Nam: Vietnamese Cuisine Goes Global
Do you enjoy reading diaCRITICS? Then please consider subscribing!Vietnamese cuisine continues its slow ascent onto the gourmet charts. First we have the globalization of pho,...
Asian American arts and culture in Orange County
Orange County, California has often been dismissed as a dead zone for music and other expressive cultural forms. This goes for mainstream, alternative, underground,...
Để Mai Tính’s (Fool for Love) US premiere
The biggest hit of Vietnamese cinema this year is coming to the United States. Để Mai Tính (Fool for Love) will premiere on September...
Jade Hidle: The Circle Painting Project and Overcoming a Tetherball Dilemma
This is the first blog by our newest diaCRITIC, Jade Hidle:To understand the ache for, and seeming impossibility of, a perfect circle, you don’t...
Teleconference: The Tale of Kieu in English
an introduction to the poem for English-language readers and as an in-depth discussion of Nguyen Du's prosody for Vietnamese literature specialists
Ru, a novel by Kim Thuy
Do you enjoy reading diaCRITICS? Then please consider subscribing!diaCRITICS will periodically post blogs from other places. So our next guest blog is from Isabelle Thuy...
Six Vietnamese Writers Awarded Human Rights Prize
An international human rights group honored six Vietnamese writers last week for their contributions to free expression in the cause of democracy. The honorees...
Hero With a Thousand Faces
I have often thought I could have lived many different lives, that I was in Joseph Campbell’s words, some sort of “hero with a...