Yearly Archives: 2016

Vi Khi Nao's novel, Fish in Exile, will make its first appearance on November 1, 2016.

Danielle Flood, a journalist born of the wartime love triangle that inspired the one in Graham Greene’s The Quiet American, searches for her father after surviving a bizarre youth of privilege, estrangement and cruelty.

WHO WAS ANDREW JACKSONHe was the seventh president of the United States He was responsible for the Indian Removal Act He was poor but ended up rich ...

Reviewed by Eric Nguyen. Reading Night Sky with Exit Wounds it becomes obvious that Vuong has a love-hate relationship with humanity: he loves it for its tenderness, he hates it for its violence. It’s a point of tension throughout these poems as Vuong explores his familial history, his countries’ histories, and his own life.

diaCRITICS editor Viet Thanh Nguyen writes on the rigidity of defined borders and recognizing the importance of immigrants in America's history: "I am an immigrant. I am also a human being, an American, a Vietnamese, an Asian and a refugee. I do not have to choose among these identities, despite those who would insist that I do."

These portraits give recognition to the inherent third eye. Guiding our discernment and intuition, it assists us in the search for answers. The stitching in the work, soft and possibly unnoticed, describes that small, quiet voice within us - that intuition that serves to guide us from moment to moment.

We delve further into the intersection of the visual and storytelling/narrative-making with our late-June post of two collage art series by Trinh Mai -- "We Are...

Paul Tran ngồi lại cùng Nguyễn Thanh Việt, tổng biên tập trang Diacritics và tác giả của cuốn tiểu thuyết bán chạy nhất “The Sympathizer” (“Cảm tình viên”). Trong cuộc phỏng vấn trên trang The Margins, Paul và nhà văn Nguyễn Thanh Việt trò chuyện về việc thay đổi góc nhìn về chiến tranh Việt Nam và tìm tính nhân văn trong những điều phi nhân văn.

Bao Phi teams up with filmmaker Tony Nguyen to perform a visual version of his poem, "Future Letter to Daughter Apologizing for When I Caved to Her Request and Brought Her to Barbie's Dream House at the Mall of America."

Reviewed by Thuy Linh. Vinh Quyen’s Debris of Debris, a novel about post-war Vietnam written and published first in English and now in Vietnamese, is an enjoyable work of masculine sensibilities.