Monthly Archives: July, 2021

In the Diaspora: July 2021

News from Việt Nam►Vietnam reports 7,500 victims of human trafficking in 2010-2021►As bad debt climbs, rough collection tactics spell trouble in Vietnam►Vietnam looks to...

Say My Name

Of course, like any other nation, the U.S. has problems. One of which is racism.

Book Review: The Beginning of Water

Tran Le Khanh’s poetry amazes with what it achieves in the space of four lines.

THIS IS FOR MẸ: If I Wasn’t an Asian Woman ~ a poem by Huỳnh Như

I would not be blamed for the illness in another person's heart. 

Proof of Life

My father wrote a book, which he spent much of the last decade researching and writing without cease. It is over 2,000 pages.

On Excavation and Activating Ghosts In the Field: A Conversation Between Julian Saporiti and Dao Strom

As a second-gen Viet kid, your awareness of the war you were born out of is only accessible through echoes, delays, reverberations, distortion and fuzz. You know you're not getting a clean signal and you can't go back to the source.

Boundless Land ~ a poem by Y-Bình Nguyễn

I wonder if the land remembers the smell of bomb debris.