Yearly Archives: 2023

The image of us walking away from the school–your accompanying me home moves me, but I’m not sure why. Perhaps because my adult self knows how with retrospection–how meaningful it was to have someone who looked like me/my family members–to spend time with me in a kind way.

Tuy là trích dẫn này có một chút sến (mượn từ của đạo diễn bộ phim, Leon Lê, trong cuộc phỏng vấn với Columbia University) tôi cho rằng du hành vượt thời gian là phương pháp mà Song Lang miêu tả cách thức vấn đề giới tính ở Việt Nam thời kỳ cuối thuộc địa không đơn giản như đa số các nhà nghiên cứu đã thừa nhận.

Drowning Dragon Slips by Burning Plains counters the narrative held in the West about women and the land of the quaintly "lush" and "charming" Mekong Delta.

My mother cannot find her old home.

Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of its publication, DVAN is proud to release a newly updated version of Watermark, the seminal anthology of Vietnamese American literature. With this new edition, which includes fourteen additional pieces, Watermark takes its place as a generational work of eclectic and essential voices.

I know how to say sorry in Mandarin but not Hokkien, which is the Chinese my family speaks. That should tell you a bit about my family life.That’s also why, up until a few weeks ago, I didn’t consider Hokkien my mother tongue. All I know of Hokkien are orders—as in, go there, come here, don’t do that, bring this, let’s eat—domestic things, an insult or two, and questions—as in, what time is dismissal tomorrow, how could you.But since settling down in Switzerland and seeing droves of kids return home for lunch, and then again in the late afternoon once classes are done, I hear my mom’s voice. Hwai hakseng be tsia lo. Bang heh lo.

Though high school only just ended, it feels like the door hasn’t fully shut.

It is way too early for this. And by “this,” I mean “Girl on Fire” blasting through conference speakers as multiple women flitter around scooping shiny confetti from little baskets and sprinkling them onto white tablecloths. While my daily coffee intake to prevent caffeine headaches does nothing to actually stimulate my brain, “this” certainly woke me up.

News from Vietnamese Abroad and from Việt Nam►Man executed in Vietnam despite international appeals from Europe and Canada►How a Vietnam War diary found its...

[Libération] La romancière française rend compte d’une résidence ce mois-ci dans les Cévennes d’auteurs de la diaspora vietnamienne à l’initiative du DVAN, fondation créée par l’écrivain Viet Thanh Nguyen.