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Monthly Archives: January, 2012
Xuân Này Con Không Về – I Won’t Be Home for Spring (New Year)
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Sonny Le, previously featured in his piece about his journey from Viet Nam and 25 Hawkins Road, now shares his feelings, thoughts about being a...
Anvi Hoàng Reports: First Vietnamese Opera in the United States | Vở opera Việt Nam đầu tiên trên đất Mỹ
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Most Vietnamese are familiar with the story of Quan Âm Thị Kính, a thousand-year-old Vietnamese folk tale, and the Buddhist chanting Nam Mô A...
Jade Hidle: A Meditation on the Mixed-Race Politics of My Homegirl Maggie Q
diaCRITICS has talked about actress Maggie Q in a review about Nikita and reading Nikita as a postfeminist show. Here, Jade Hidle takes up...
Saigon America, a photo essay series on Vietnamese American life
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Earlier last year, diaCRITICS featured Eric Nguyen's review on the up and coming Vietnamese American poet Ocean Vuong's chapbook of poetry, Burnings. Vuong was...
Obituary: Dr. Boitran Huynh-Beattie (1957-2012)
Dr. Boitran Huynh-Beattie, a leading Vietnamese art historian and guest writer for diaCRITICS, has passed away. diaCRITIC Nora Taylor contributes this obituary. I am sad...
Editor’s Picks: Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Top Ten Most Critical of 2011
diaCRITICS editor Viet Thanh Nguyen's Top Ten Posts of the year 2011. A little over a year and a half ago diaCRITICS began publishing. Since...
[Cổ Tích Story] Toad is the Uncle of Heaven
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Story time! This is a popular truyện cổ tích Việt Nam (old collected tales of VN) that fantastically explains the phenomena of toads croaking...
Interview with Vu Tran — Las Vegas Review of Books
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After managing editor Julie Thi Underhill's two-part "intervu" with author Vu Tran, you might think there is little else to know about the man....