Music

Have you heard about the rising Vietnamese rapper, Suboi? diaCRITICS editor Viet Thanh Nguyen on why you should listen to her music.

+++ Beginnings are cataclysmic.The birth event, the crossing, the passage across the now-new threshold—all involve something upheaved, abandoned, wrought or obliterated in their wake. A...

We Were Meant To Be A Gentle People (East EP) is a hybrid music-literary project, by author/songwriter Dao Strom, a 6-song EP album accompanied by a book of prose and poetry fragments, images, lyrics, and text arrangements on Vietnam - as a late-century mythology, a war, a word, an exodus, an inheritance/disinheritance.

As many of you know, diaCRITICS periodically reposts blog entries from other blog sites. We are excited to share with you an interview conducted...

How can we begin to understand the transnational ties that bind us both to the United States and Vietnam?  How do ordinary people negotiate...

Does Pho--that aromatic broth that is the staple of nutriment and commerce in Vietnamese enclave life--have significance as art?  Does it illuminate the contours...