Yearly Archives: 2011

Michele Janette’s ‘My Viet’—A Review by Isabelle Thuy Pelaud

Two groundbreaking books on Vietnamese American literature released in one year!? Here DVAN founder Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, author of This Is All I Choose To Tell:...

Learn Vietnamese

For every reason to learn a language -let's just say Vietnamese for example-, there is a corresponding method.  Some learn for work, some learn...

Monthly Surprise: Five Voices from the Vietnamese Diaspora

Every month we do a Monthly Surprise by hitting the Surprise Me button on the home page and seeing what comes up from our...

An Interview with Bao Phi

Bao Phi strikes again! The spoken word artist and poet graces diaCRITICS yet again with Kim-An Lieberman's interview, speaking about how he sings the...

Help Linh Dinh! Postcards from the End of America

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...

October’s Most Critical Posts

Every month we list the Top Ten Most Critical Posts, which are the ones published in that month that have gotten the most hits....

Ed Kashi’s "The Leaves Keep Falling"

 Ed Kashi's new documentary short, "The Leaves Keep Falling", produced and edited by Julie Winokur of Talking Eyes Media, debuted this month in CA...

DVAN Holiday Fundraiser!

Diacritics is the blog of the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN, dvanonline.com). Join us on December 10th in San Francisco for our holiday fundraiser,...

For a Bag of Coffee (Giá của một gói cà phê)

Vietnam is simultaneously a major exporter of coffee (2nd largest in the world) and a primary source country for trafficked women and children.  What...

It takes a circus: Xiec Lang Toi, Part III

This is the story of how three men became a circus that became a village. In the third and last installment of diaCRITICS guest correspondent...