Monthly Archives: May 2010
Memorial Day
On Memorial Day in small-town New England we clean the graves and decorate those of the old soldiers with the flag. Since I moved South I have wondered what I am supposed to do down here, decorate Confederate graves? Well, why not. The rebels lost their bid to break the Union, extend slavery not only west but south, indeed all …(read more)
A Life in Dreams
I never knew Tam Tran, but by all accounts, she was a young and vibrant activist, artist, and scholar whose …(read more)
Paradise and Prisons: New York Times on the Con Dao Islands
Vietnam is apparently going the way of Thailand. The New York Times wrote recently about the Con Dao Islands, once …(read more)
Meeting a Taxi Driver in N.Y. and Other Poems by Phan Nhiên Hạo
SPOTLIGHT ON PHAN NHIÊN HẠO The poems below by Phan Nhiên Hạo are “fueled by a mix of strife, hope, …(read more)
the war after the war
This post is going to be of a more personal nature… I spend my mornings (usually) trying to write. Lately, …(read more)
Operation Greenlight
Cinema Symposium 5 (UCLA) I had the chance to take a peek into the world of Vietnamese Cinema this past …(read more)
diaCRITICIZE: Loudspeakers in different languages
diaCRITICIZE is the periodic editors’ note or guest editorial. Here, Nguyen Qui Duc reflects on some legacies of war. The …(read more)
Asia Entertainment pays tribute in “55 Năm Nhìn Lại” Video
Asia Entertainment, for those who might be unfamiliar with Vietnamese disaporic pop culture, is the production company that has gone …(read more)
Diasporic Ho Chi Minh
We can’t let May 19th pass without a gesture toward the man the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam claims was …(read more)
