DVAN Executive Director Isabelle Pelaud sat down with Unseen Histories for a conversation about The Cleaving – an anthology of dialogues between Vietnamese writers across borders. Isabelle discussed how race, colonialism, and war crucially inform Vietnamese literature, particularly with the rise of anti-immigrant sentiment in Trump’s America.

Reading "The Family Recipe" by Carolyn Huynh is like sitting with a Vietnamese cousin in a cafe while she catches you up on the latest family drama

In Stories from the Edges of the Sea, Andrew Lam writes not from the center of trauma but from its quieter afterlives. These are...

This is just the journey that my family went on, and I wouldn't be the person I am today without all of that having happened.

He hurled the teapot with all his strength. It soared for kilometers, entered a half-built mansion, winding its way into a bricklayer’s shack, then smashed into uncle Đạt’s lunchbox.

April 30, 2025 marks 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War and the beginning of the modern Vietnamese diasporic story.

It is an incredible moment to be a Vietnamese diasporic writer.

We asked writers, scholars, and critics about the Vietnamese diasporic books they think are the most important. Here’s what they said.

For many people in Germany, it was like an introduction to the Vietnam War and its legacy.

Motion sickness runs on my mother’s side of the family.