Monthly Archives: January, 2025

Book Review: Coming Out of My Skin

Phou’s brutally honest memoir offers a refreshing and important voice within diasporic Asian literary and cultural production.

In the Diaspora: January 2025

►Tết celebrations held across North America ►SF culinary industry mourns death of hometown icon Charles Phan ►Lunar New Year celebrations take off in San Jose ►Drivers in...

Book Review: Linh Ly is Doing Just Fine

The book explores the lonely yet crowded nature of one’s twenties in a way that leaves room for the reader’s own self-insertion and interpretation.

Poetry: EVERYTHING IS, PT II

Everything is problematic.

Forked Tongues: An Interview with Samuel Caleb Wee and Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng

I wanted it to be like listening to a vinyl record, with the A-side all glitchy industrial beats before you flip it over for the B-side of acoustic ballads.

In the Diaspora: December 2024

►Vietnam's 2024 birthrate hits historic low, defying Year of the Dragon trends ►Vietnam police arrest 3 foreigners for using counterfeit US dollars ►Vietnam Completes Construction of...