Yearly Archives: 2024

Giữa Hai Giòng Sông/Between Two Rivers/Entre deux rivières is the first retrospective of An-My Lê’s three-decade career by a major American museum.

It took more than a decade of writing, researching, rewriting and rewriting, but now it’s all there in black and white.

As an autofictional work that is part memoir, novel, and essay collection, Anam is a curious product of academic research, philosophical inquiry, oral history, and imagination.

at the witching hour, I grieve for the alternative life my mother never lived

San Francisco is thirty minutes away. If I want my story to end before morning, I’d better start now. 

News from the Diaspora and from Việt Nam ►Half of Japanese firms in Vietnam seek expansion ►A large percentage of European plastic sent to Vietnam ends...

i think back to the iridescence of the reefs under this part of the sea

“I really joined this residency to meet other authors from different cultural environments. …We talked, we listened, we engaged in dialogues,” Aubert-Nguyen said. “It helped me better understand their narrative styles, their esthetics, their oeuvres. Because we talked a lot about literature, but also art, music, graphic novels, traveling and cuisine. So it was very full and very diverse.”

The true North was a land of nothing. Of nothing to do. Nowhere to go. And no one to meet.

You’re never alone when you look in the mirror.