Yearly Archives: 2018

The 88 Project Vietnam Free Expression Newsletter No. 10/2018 – Week of March 5-11 The 88 Project shares the stories of Vietnamese activists who are being persecuted...

diaCRITICS highlights artists of the Vietnamese diaspora. In this post we feature art work by visual and mixed-media artist, Trinh Mai.

Events Viet Stories: Vietnamese American Oral History project at the University of California, Irvine announces the opening of VIET STORIES: Recollections and Regenerations, an art,...

Shortly before taking on this editorship, I spent two months at an artist residency in Iceland. I’d been dreaming of this trip for years, of being someplace faraway and–for myself–disconnected from history as I knew it. History as I knew it being: an American citizenship via war-related refugee exodus from Vietnam...

Reviewed by Christoph Giebel. Andreas Margara’s book on the ways in which the Second Indochina War, or the American war in Việt Nam, is remembered in contemporary, reform/Đổi Mới-era Việt Nam leaves me of two minds.

In this artist profile, we feature art work from MyLoan Dinh recent exhibit Art of Struggle.

Socio-cultural, literary, and political news and events relating to Việt Nam and to the Vietnamese diaspora. Families of kidnapped girls suffer from fluctuating emotions of distress, confusion, anguish, despair, sadness, frustration, helplessness, hope, and more news.

This is a conversation interview conducted by Dao Strom, new editor of diaCRITICS, with Viet Thanh Nguyen, author, founder and publisher of diaCRITICS.

We welcome Tết and the Lunar New Year (Year of the Earth Dog) by launching a new phase of diaCRITICS. Our publisher and founder, Viet Thanh Nguyen, will hand over the managing editorship of diaCRITICS to Dao Strom, who has been a contributing writer and literary series editor for Out of the Margins, since 2011.

This op-ed essay by diaCRITICS publisher Viet Thanh Nguyen is a reprint from The NYT Opinion section on Jan. 20, 2018.If you enjoy reading...