Yearly Archives: 2015
An Immigrant’s Experience, Recast As Noir, In ‘Dragonfish’
In an interview with NPR's Scott Simon, Vu Tran discusses his first novel, Dragonfish, and noir fiction. This interview was originally published on NPR. ABOUT DRAGONFISHOakland...
Editor’s Note: Our Accidental Hiatus
Dear subscribers and readers,Perhaps you noticed that diaCRITICS didn't publish anything from May 9th until early this month. Well, we did publish several articles,...
July 2015 News and Events
What happened in July 2015: socio-cultural, literary, and political news and events relating to Viet nam and to the Vietnamese diaspora. ") are the...
Jade Hidle: Michael Nhat’s Experimental Hip-Hop in Heads on Sticks
Nhat unapologetically confronts the larger social context surrounding his personal background as an orphan survivor of the U.S. war in Viet Nam. In “The Racism I Go Through,” Nhat cuts through today’s oftentimes evasive and murky racial discourse by posing the question, “It’s 2014 and people are still this dumb? Fuck me!”
Phỏng vấn Andrew X. Pham: “Ngôn từ thuộc về mọi người”
Andrew X. Pham có một nghề thú vị. Được đào tạo để trở thành kỹ sư, anh bỏ việc để đạp xe dọc Bờ Tây nước Mỹ, nơi anh đón máy bay sang Nhật và cuối cùng đặt chân tới Việt Nam, nơi anh được sinh ra, nơi anh đi tìm lại nguồn cội.
Top 5 Most Critical Posts of April
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April 2015 News and Events
What happened in April 2015: socio-cultural, literary, and political news and events relating to Viet Nam and to the Vietnamese diaspora.Have you subscribed to...
March 2015 News and Events
What happened in March 2015: socio-cultural, literary, and political news and events relating to Viet nam and to the Vietnamese diaspora. Have you subscribed...
Meta Eulogy: Nguyễn Ngọc Loan By a Vietnamese American (Part 2)
For the fortieth anniversary of the “Fall of Saigon,” ZM Quynh writes a meta eulogy dedicated to Nguyễn Ngọc Loan. In this two-part series, Quynh raises these critical questions: Have we been denied our heroes? Has our history been fed to us in half-truths?...
Meta Eulogy: Nguyễn Ngọc Loan By a Vietnamese American (Part 1)
When I started writing this eulogy, I struggled with the title. My first choice was: “Nguyễn Ngọc Loan: Reclamation of a Hero.” But, though he may be your parents’ hero, he’s probably not your hero. So I thought maybe I’d go with: “Nguyễn Ngọc Loan – Why Should I Care?”