Book Review: Daughters of the New Year by E.M. Tran
Diasporic movements can distort narratives to unrecognizable lengths. Memories are buried with trauma, and the interconnectedness of generations can be lost. Such ideas are pondered in E.M. Tran’s Daughters of the New Year
Film Review: Nocebo by Lorcan Finnegan
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For a film that has no short supply of horror, both psychological and visceral, I find these scenes the most dreadful precisely because both are all too common scenarios involving migrant live-in care workers, often women coming from labor-exporting countries like the Philippines.
Book Review: O by Tammy Nguyen
O by Tammy Nguyen is a multi-layered narrative that resists meaning. The stories that Nguyen tells of the dental procedures needed to achieve the...
Book Review: All That’s Left Unsaid by Tracey Lien
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Debut author Tracey Lien's novel, All That's Left Unsaid, uses the frame of a detective novel to richly explore the aftermath of a violent...
Book Review: Mythical Man by David Ly
To enter the world of David Ly’s debut collection Mythical Man is to enter the body of Ly’s imagined monster: a monster erected to...
Book Review: She is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran
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At the center of She is a Haunting is Nhà Hoa, or “Flower House”, a 1920s villa built by French colonizers in Đà Lạt, and abandoned by the French and Americans after the Vietnam War.