Monthly Archives: August, 2022
Book Review: Experiments in Skin
In her latest book, Experiments in Skin: Race and Beauty in the Shadows of Vietnam, New York University professor Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu sheds light on the toxic legacy of Agent Orange used during the Vietnam War by theorizing around skin.
In the Diaspora: August 2022
News from Vietnamese Abroad►Vietnamese voters could sway San Jose mayor’s raceNews from Việt Nam►Vietnam declares being LGBTQ+ is ‘not an illness’ in victory for...
Unburied Sounds: A Conversation with Tuan Andrew Nguyen
Objects contain stories. Or another way of seeing it is that we imbue objects with stories, with meaning.
Book Review: Come Clean by Joshua Nguyen
In his debut poetry collection, Come Clean, Joshua Nguyen isn’t afraid to get messy, inviting us into a space that has memory strewn all...
Rice in Three Different Stages ~ poems by Melina Kritikopoulos
Harvested only a few weeks ago. / Slumped over and exhausted, grain /
Lay upon grain, shivering in the / Nakedness of the woven plastic bag
On Being a Writer: Vietnamese Diasporas in Dialogue
Forthcoming 2023The first DVAN Writers Residency brought together ten writers and three academics from five different countries to participate in a week-long residency at...
Hà Nội at Midnight by Bảo Ninh
Of the twelve short stories appearing in Hà Nội at Midnight, ten are appearing in English for the first time. Bringing to life the...
Technically, Not Tenderly
Just as the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean come together and become undistinguishable at some point, I am equally immersed in both Vietnamese and English.
“Comma, They’re Dead”: A Conversation with Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint
Deputy Editor Sydney Van To talks to Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint about Burmese cosmology, endings and beginnings, nationalism, and literary representation.