Yearly Archives: 2014

What happened in August 2014: news and events relating to Vietnamese at home and in the diaspora.It’s time for our second subscriber drive. We’re...

Late Sunday afternoon, in a hot, sweaty little theater called The Thick House, the Playwright Foundation wrapped up its festival with a reading of playwright Don Nguyen's Sound. It’s a play dominated by silence and fingers flying in your face.

AU-CO TRAN WINS IN OUR SUBSCRIBER DRIVE! diaCRITICS wants to add 100 new subscribers! The 25th, 50th, 75th, and 100th subscribers (and those who referred them) get their...

What happened in July 2014: news and events relating to Vietnamese at home and in the diaspora.It’s time for our second subscriber drive. We’re...

TRAN K. NGUYEN WINS IN OUR SUBSCRIBER DRIVE! diaCRITICS wants to add 100 new subscribers! The 25th, 50th, 75th, and 100th subscribers (and those who referred...

Part 2 of an interview with composer P.Q. Phan, in which he discusses his latest work, the opera The Tale of Lady Thị Kính, with ethnomusicologist Alexander M. Cannon.

Part 1 of an interview with composer P.Q. Phan. Although he composes in what he calls the “Euro-centric” tradition, many of his works, including his most recent work The Tale of Lady Thị Kính, deal directly with Vietnamese aesthetics and stories.

How do you define "home"? DiaCritic Jade Hidle suggests exploring this complex notion through The Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association’s (VAALA) new art exhibit,...

The founder and co-director of an organization called the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN), Isabelle Thuy Pelaud is a professor and author who specializes on Vietnamese...

IT’S HERE! THE TOP FIVE MOST READ POSTS OF JUNE ON DIACRITICS! READ YOUR FAVORITES AGAIN OR DISCOVER SOMETHING YOU’VE OVERLOOKED. SO, STAY TUNED...