Monthly Archives: December, 2015
Trư Cuồng—a thirty year-old warning
‘Flicisme’ is a term coined in the 1970s by them, those Vietnamese then reckoned the promising figures of a generation of young writers of...
OUT OF THE MARGINS: On Giving Fire
How does a man prepare to meet his dead father-in-law for the first time?
Eric Nguyen Reviews ‘We Were Meant To Be A Gentle People’ by Dao Strom
diaCRITIC Eric Nguyen reviews Dao Strom's autobiographical multimedia project, We Were Meant To Be A Gentle People. This work is Strom's most personal one yet, and ties together prose, songs, and images to create a memoir that sheds light on the life of an diasporic artist trying to reconcile her lack of refugee origin story.
Subscriber Drive! Win First Edition of The Sympathizer
It’s time for our third subscriber drive. We’re looking for 100 new subscribers for diaCRITICS, and we’ll be giving away a signed first edition of...
The Swallows Uncaged: A Narrative in Eight Panels by Elizabeth McLean
Jade Colbert reviews Elizabeth McLean's newest work, The Swallows Uncaged: A Narrative in Eight Panels. This review was originally published by The Globe and...
Kim Huynh’s New Book “Vietnam as if… Tales of Youth, Love and Destiny”
Author Kim Huynh has debuted his first work of fiction, Vietnam as if...Tales of youth, love and destiny; a collection of novellas focusing on life in...
Reviews of A History of the Vietnamese & Sources of Vietnamese Tradition
Tuan Hoang reviews K.W. Taylor, A History of the Vietnamese (Cambridge University Press, 2013); and George E. Dutton, Jayne S. Werner, and John K....