Yearly Archives: 2014

Trong bài này, Tổng Biên Tập của diaCRITICS Nguyễn Thanh Việt bàn về ý nghĩa của “Tháng Tư Đen”, hoặc chữ mà người miền...

Dao Strom reflects on her experience of celebrating "Black April" in Vietnam on April 30th for the first time since she left in 1975. A...

  Thuy Linh gives us an in-depth review about how Southern Vietnamese films now do not compare to the 90's era of 'instant noodles'. Have you subscribed to...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Coming out is a difficult, but often liberating process. Queer people of color, however, are challenged with navigating between their sexual orientation and their...

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...

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.