Yearly Archives: 2015

Jade Hidle Reviews Qui Nguyen’s Vietgone, A Good Fucking Play

diaCRITIC Jade Hidle reviews Qui Nguyen's exciting, hilarious, and moving play Vietgone. The play follows the love story of Nguyen's parents, and uses humor to discuss...

OUT OF THE MARGINS Lit Series Launch: New Poems by Bao Phi

My dad asked me if he ever broke a promise and I said nothing - knowing he didn’t bring me to the circus not because he couldn’t keep a promise but because he didn’t have the money.  Almost thirty years later, me and my daughter go to the circus.  First time for both of us.

diaCRITICS’ Vietnamese American Lit Series :: 2015 & Beyond

This forum is curated by Vietnamese American and Vietnamese diasporic editors and readers. We make this distinction to make clear that this is a space in which we define ourselves for ourselves. And here, in this shared space, we gather together some of our (scattered) voices and endeavors.

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...

Eric Nguyen Reviews ‘The Art of Kozu’ by James Edgecombe

Eric Nguyen reviews James Edgecombe's new novella The Art of Kozu, which won the 2014 MMU Novella Award. By narrating the life of a...

September 2015 News and Events

What happened in September 2015: socio-cultural, literary, and political news and events relating to Vietnam and to the Vietnamese diaspora. ") are the opinion...

David Lucas’ New Novel Uprooted

David Lucas' newest novel, Uprooted - A Vietnamese Family's Journey, 1935-1975, is an uplifting family saga based on a true story that spans three generations of...

Eric Nguyen Reviews ‘Dragonfish’ by Vu Tran

Dragonfish has all the markings of a good detective story. An Oakland cop, Robert, narrates the novel while Sonny, a Vegas gambler and smuggler with a violent history, serves as its villain. And, of course, there’s the mystery in the disappearance of Suzy—Robert’s ex-wife and Sonny’s current wife...

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...

Eric Nguyen’s Review of ‘Lotusland’ by David Joiner

Eric Nguyen gives a review of David Joiner's Lotusland, which tells the story of Nathan Monroe, a young American writer living in Vietnam. Though this setting...