Yearly Archives: 2013
Linh Dinh — Those Laboring Days
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...
$1000 more to publish DVAN book on Southeast Asian Women’s Art and Lit
The Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN, our parent organization) needs your support to publish its anthology of Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora, Troubling Borders:...
Top Ten Most Critical of January 2013 and a New Most Critical Post of All Time
The Top Ten most read posts of January 2013 on diaCRITICS, and a NEW NUMBER ONE POST OF ALL TIME. Read your favorites again....
Vincent Lam’s The Headmaster’s Wager
In this review of The Headmaster's Wager, a first novel by Vincent Lam, Vinh Nguyen finds sociohistorical and cultural value in the rare portrayal...
The Films of Nguyen Trinh Thi at Cycle 84–a hub of Cinema in Paris
Do you want to support the arts? Do you think international cinema is the hallmark of global citizenship? Then this event might just be...
Khanh Ho: A Vietnamese American Detective Novel: Unheard of?
A writer, critic, professor and world traveler confesses a terrible, trashy secret: his love of detective fiction. In an essay that yokes his experiences...
What Happened in December 2012: Some News and Events
What happened in December 2012: news and events relating to the Vietnamese diaspora and Vietnamese in Vietnam.Viet Kieu in the newsThe Do family talks...
Interview with Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde: We’re not just boat people
An Interview with Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde--scholar, activist, writer--touches upon the many journeys made in the production of her book: Transnationalizing Viet Nam: Community, Culture,...
Monique Truong in Singapore
diaCRITICS periodically posts blog entries from other places. This slightly revised review of Monique Truong's work and interview with the author is by Audrey Chin of oddznns; you...
A Review of Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde’s Transnationalizing Viet Nam
How can we begin to understand the transnational ties that bind us both to the United States and Vietnam? How do ordinary people negotiate...