Yearly Archives: 2016
Eric Nguyen Reviews ‘After Disasters’ by Viet Dinh
Reviewed by Eric Nguyen. In January 2001, an earthquake struck the Gujarat area of India. In its wake, between 13,805 and 20,023 people were killed, an additional 167,000 were injured, and nearly 400,000 homes were destroyed. It is against this backdrop that Viet Dinh places his meditation on suffering and redemption, a debut novel aptly titled After Disasters.
Ajar Press :: NƯỚC | WATER | COUNTRY
In the beginning, as a hidden being, I was absorbed in the nước ối (amniotic fluid) of my mother. I was there, safe in darkness, unknowing of what would happen, until being born. Then I came to know that I am a vulnerable being in life. To know about nước mắt (tears), the waters of human, and nước mưa (rain), the waters of sky, one pushing from the inside out, one falling from the outside in...
Những tiếng nói mới trong văn chương người Mỹ gốc Việt: Trò chuyện cùng Viet Thanh Nguyen, Andrew Lam, và Aimee Phan
Ở đây, Viet Thanh Nguyen tham gia cùng Andrew Lam và Aimee Phan để thảo luận về việc viết văn, cảm hứng của họ, về cộng đồng văn chương Việt Nam hải ngoại, và về tương lai của văn chương người Mỹ gốc Việt.
A Conversation with Authors Viet Thanh Nguyen, Andrew Lam, and Aimee Phan
Viet Thanh Nguyen joins fellow authors Andrew Lam (East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres and Birds of Paradise Lost) and Aimee Phan (We Should Never Meet and The Reeducation of Cherry Truong) to discuss their writing, their inspirations, the diasporic Vietnamese literary community, and the future of Vietnamese American literature.
The Hidden Scars All Refugees Carry
Many people have characterized my novel, “The Sympathizer,” as an immigrant story, and me as an immigrant. No. My novel is a war story and I am not an immigrant. I am a refugee who, like many others, has never ceased being a refugee in some corner of my mind.
The Fruits of Your Suffering: A Letter to My Refugee Mom
Adrienne Minh-Chau Le's "Letter To My Refugee Mom" is what the title suggests it is - a straightforward, sincere, moving epistolary spoken by one generation toward the...
Bốn bài thơ của Chieu Anh Nguyen :: Four Poems by Chieu Anh Nguyen
diaCRITICS presents 4 poems by Saigon-based poet, Chieu Anh Nguyen. Huong Nguyen's translations for each poem follow the original Vietnamese text. Originally published in Undercurrents, the latest issue of Iowa University's Exchanges literary journal.
ERIC NGUYỄN BÌNH LUẬN TẬP THƠ “NIGHT SKY WITH EXIT WOUNDS” CỦA OCEAN VƯƠNG
Eric Nguyen bình luận tập thơ đầu tay của Ocean Vương, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, tạm dịch Trời Đêm cùng Những Vết Thương Xuyên.
OUT OF THE MARGINS :: When You Let Your Hair Down Christine
Sometimes when Christine lets down her hair, sometimes when she lets down her hair, it seems as if my nocturnal bloodstream were transporting private cargos of emotion across the pacific.
Eric Nguyen Reviews ‘The Old Philosopher’ by Vi Khi Nao
Reviewed by Eric Nguyen. The title poem situates the readers to Nao’s ontological project. In thirteen lines, Nao paints a scene of birds—“approximately four thousand/two-hundred and forty five” of them—released from the trunks of three cars...