Literature
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. Au contraire! Geoff Schumacher’s interview with Vu, published in April 2011 in the Las Vegas Review of Books, deftly expands upon Vu’s literary styles and influences, and his years in Iowa and Nevada. Vu also kicks …(read more)
Dan Duffy on American Writer W.D. Ehrhart
What do you call a poet who’s been struck by lightning a dozen times? W.D. Ehrhart. But each time a …(read more)
Atone: The Writing of Wayne Karlin
Atonement is often described as the closing of chapters or the completion of a cycle, when the story comes to …(read more)
Call and Response—A Review of Bao Phi’s ‘Sông I Sing’
BiblioPhi-lia! Here diaCRITICS managing editor Julie Thi Underhill reviews Bao Phi’s debut poetry collection Sông I Sing, released in October by Coffee …(read more)
Lady Borton
The honorific “Bà” or “Lady” has been bestowed upon some of Vietnam’s greatest women from warriors like Hai Bà Trưng …(read more)
Thanhha Lai wins National Book Award
Thanhha Lai’s Inside Out and Back Again won the National Book Award, one of the most prestigious literary awards in the …(read more)
Michele Janette’s ‘My Viet’—A Review by Isabelle Thuy Pelaud
Two groundbreaking books on Vietnamese American literature released in one year!? Here DVAN founder Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, author of This Is All …(read more)
Learn Vietnamese
For every reason to learn a language -let’s just say Vietnamese for example-, there is a corresponding method. Some learn …(read more)
Monthly Surprise: Five Voices from the Vietnamese Diaspora
Every month we do a Monthly Surprise by hitting the Surprise Me button on the home page and seeing what …(read more)
An Interview with Bao Phi
Bao Phi strikes again! The spoken word artist and poet graces diaCRITICS yet again with Kim-An Lieberman’s interview, speaking about …(read more)
