Monthly Archives: June, 2014
June 2014 News and Events
What happened in June 2014: news and events relating to Vietnamese at home and in the diaspora.It’s time for our second subscriber drive. We’re...
Thuy Linh: Good Music, Romance: Courtesy of a Southern Film Tradition
In Thuy Linh's most recent post in her column, she highlights the use of music and romance in Southern films in the pre-1975 era...
A Review of Pages from the Textbook of Alternate History by Phong Nguyen
Eric Nguyen reviews Pages from the Textbook of Alternate History by Phong Nguyen. In his newest book, Phong Nguyen reimagines history as we know it by...
Top Five Most Critical of May 2014
IT’S HERE! THE TOP FIVE MOST READ POSTS OF MAY ON DIACRITICS! READ YOUR FAVORITES AGAIN OR DISCOVER SOMETHING YOU’VE OVERLOOKED. SO, STAY TUNED TO...
Ngoc Linh: A Warm Silence: Coming Out to Mom
Coming out is a difficult, but often liberating process. Queer people of color, however, are challenged with navigating between their sexual orientation and their...
Khanh Ho Reviews As the Heart Bones Break
Audrey Chin's latest novel, As the Heart Bones Break, follows the life of a South Vietnamese man and his family over the last sixty years. Khanh...
Natalie Porter Reviews Saigon’s Edge: On the Margins of Ho Chi Minh City
Exploring how the production of symbolic and material space intersects with Vietnamese concepts of social space, rural-urban relations, and notions of “inside” and “outside,” Erik Harms’ Saigon’s Edge: On the Margins of Ho Chi Minh City presents a fresh perspective on experiences at edge of urbanization.
“Radicals on the Road” In the Vietnam War Era
Karin Aguilar-San Juan reviews Judy Tzu-Chun Wu's newest book, which explores the often untold story of women and people of color who organized groups...
Hoai Huong Tran’s The End of the Road
Hoai Huong journeys to northern Vietnam to search for her father's half-brother. In the process of tracing his footsteps, she discovers the precious gift of...
Interview with Lan Cao: Diving into the Wreckage And Into the World
1997 marked an important year in Vietnamese American literature when Viking published Lan Cao’s debut novel Monkey Bridge. Cao’s novel about the ramifications of...