Monthly Archives: August, 2010
Jade Hidle: The Circle Painting Project and 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...
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
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 blog is from Isabelle Thuy...
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 of democracy. The honorees...
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 of “hero with a...
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 "ethnoblog" of New American...
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. If you're the area,...