Profiles

“All These Personas That We Have”: A Conversation with Jane Pek

Deputy Editor Sydney Van To talks to Jane Pek about the detective story, the future of technology, and our social structures

Unburied Sounds: A Conversation with Tuan Andrew Nguyen

Objects contain stories. Or another way of seeing it is that we imbue objects with stories, with meaning.

“Comma, They’re Dead”: A Conversation with Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint

Deputy Editor Sydney Van To talks to Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint about Burmese cosmology, endings and beginnings, nationalism, and literary representation.

On Spectacles, TikTok, and Death: A Conversation with Jessica Q. Stark

The thing about Savage Pageant is that it’s a haunted text. It has haunted me in weird ways, and it constantly plays with the very blurred lines between serendipity, chaos, and connection.

Letters from My Father: A Conversation with Diana Cam Van Nguyen

I think more like a Czech, but I also feel a lot like Vietnamese.

“The Sinister Undertones Underneath the Undertones”: A Conversation with Mai Der Vang

Deputy Editor Sydney Van To talks to Mai Der Vang about documentary poetics, Hmong epistemology, and community building.