Monthly Archives: January, 2012

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...

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...

diaCRITICS has talked about actress Maggie Q in a review about Nikita and reading Nikita as a postfeminist show.  Here, Jade Hidle takes up...

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...

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...

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...

Story time! This is a popular truyện cổ tích Việt Nam (old collected tales of VN) that fantastically explains the phenomena of toads croaking...

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....