Monthly Archives: August 2010
The Circle Painting Project: Overcoming a Tetherball Dilemma
This is the first blog by our newest diaCRITIC, Jade Hidle: To understand the ache for, and seeming impossibility of, a perfect circle, you don’t need to be a renowned artist with your name and birth year on a plaque in some fancy art museum. In fact, if you’re like me, your artistic skills haven’t progressed since you were five, …(read more)
Teleconference: The Tale of Kieu in English
an introduction to the poem for English-language readers and as an in-depth discussion of Nguyen Du’s prosody for Vietnamese literature specialists …(read more)
Ru, a novel by Kim Thuy
Do you enjoy reading diaCRITICS? Then please consider subscribing! diaCRITICS will periodically post blogs from other places. So our next guest …(read more)
Six Vietnamese Writers Awarded Human Rights Prize
An international human rights group honored six Vietnamese writers last week for their contributions to free expression in the cause …(read more)
Hero With a Thousand Faces
I have often thought I could have lived many different lives, that I was in Joseph Campbell’s words, some sort …(read more)
Chelsea Clinton and her Vietnamese in Laws
diaCRITICS will periodically post blogs from other places. So our first guest blog is from Andrew Lam, writing in the …(read more)
Orange County Open Mic, August 5 and ongoing
Our friends at the Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association in Orange County are sponsoring a new open mic series. …(read more)
