Monthly Archives: January, 2012

Xuân Này Con Không Về – I Won’t Be Home for Spring (New Year)

Sonny Le, previously featured in his piece about his journey from Viet Nam and 25 Hawkins Road, now shares his feelings, thoughts about being a...

Anvi Hoàng Reports: First Vietnamese Opera in the United States | Vở opera Việt Nam đầu tiên trên đất Mỹ

Most Vietnamese are familiar with the story of Quan Âm Thị Kính, a thousand-year-old Vietnamese folk tale, and the Buddhist chanting  Nam Mô A...

Jade Hidle: A Meditation on the Mixed-Race Politics of My Homegirl Maggie Q

diaCRITICS has talked about actress Maggie Q in a review about Nikita and reading Nikita as a postfeminist show.  Here, Jade Hidle takes up...

Saigon America, a photo essay series on Vietnamese American life

Earlier last year, diaCRITICS featured Eric Nguyen's review on the up and coming Vietnamese American poet Ocean Vuong's chapbook of poetry, Burnings.  Vuong was...

Obituary: Dr. Boitran Huynh-Beattie (1957-2012)

Dr. Boitran Huynh-Beattie, a leading Vietnamese art historian and guest writer for diaCRITICS, has passed away. diaCRITIC Nora Taylor contributes this obituary.I am sad...

Editor’s Picks: Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Top Ten Most Critical of 2011

diaCRITICS editor Viet Thanh Nguyen's Top Ten Posts of the year 2011.A little over a year and a half ago diaCRITICS began publishing. Since...

[Cổ Tích Story] Toad is the Uncle of Heaven

Story time! This is a popular truyện cổ tích Việt Nam (old collected tales of VN) that fantastically explains the phenomena of toads croaking...

Interview with Vu Tran — Las Vegas Review of Books

After managing editor Julie Thi Underhill's two-part "intervu" with author Vu Tran, you might think there is little else to know about the man....