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Southeast Asia Now

Our special issue, Southeast Asia Now, aims to highlight current art and stories from the region.

Book Review: The Manicurist’s Daughter by Susan Lieu

About five years ago, I watched Susan Lieu perform her one-woman show, 140LBS: How Beauty Killed My Mother as part of the Center for Asian American Media’s CAAMFest in...

On Complex Children’s Literature: A Conversation between Hà Dinh and Cathy...

I've always had this story in my heart. I left the refugee camp when I was five years old, and I just remember glimpses of things that happened at...

“To live with opacity, to live with uncertainty”: A Conversation with...

I have been trying to think about the ways in which the everyday engagements with these objects—and in many ways we think of them as feminized and thus degraded...

In the Diaspora: March 2024

►How Vietnam is using e-scooters to save businesses from power outages►GDP (current US$) - Viet Nam (World Bank national accounts data, and OECD National Accounts data files)►Space for Humanity...

Stranger to the Country

Among unconventional themes, the expression of pain in Lynh Bacardi’s work—the greatest depth of despair in lives of the social margins manifested—sheds light on what otherwise can be invisible...

Đây là một câu hỏi: Tôi viết tiếng Việt (một bài...

Tiếng Việt chấm tôi: mi là người Việt.

This is a question: I write in Vietnamese (a not-yet-done poem)

The Vietnamese language punctuates me: you are a Viet person.

Bulldozer

It’s true, you can’t block the path of a bulldozer. My father said it’s because a bulldozer doesn’t have feelings.

Curse

A curse crashed into the town’s shores.

Make _________ Great Again

The running thread throughout the selected works as addressing boundaries and borders, what’s considered in and out of a state, the inner and outer, and the private and public...

Đây (không) là một câu chuyện chàng nàng.

Ban đầu tôi định viết một câu chuyện chàng nàng.

This is (not) romance fiction.

Let's imagine this is a literary trial in which I was accused of the worst crime for a writer in my country—writing something worth writing about.