Literature
Linh Dinh’s ‘Poetry Sightings’
In this original essay for diaCRITICS, poet Linh Dinh reflects upon the absence of poetry in U.S. society, offering us a haunting glimpse into the Poetry Junk Yard “where every life form, radiant or otherwise, goes to die, with its dreams, Hollywood or otherwise, never coming close to being fulfilled.” Yet outside of this fatalism, Dinh etches a bittersweet cartography …(read more)
A Review of Nguyễn Quí Đức’s ‘Where the Ashes Are: The Odyssey of a Vietnamese Family’
diaCRITICS will periodically have guest blogs. Here’s one from Stephen Sohn, professor of English at Stanford University, where he is completing …(read more)
A Winning Debut: Thanhha Lai’s ‘Inside Out & Back Again’
diaCRITIC Kim-An Lieberman introduces us to a new Vietnamese American poet and her award-winning work of poetry. Thanhha Lai’s Inside …(read more)
A Review of Jenna Le’s ‘Six Rivers’
diaCRITICS special contributor Sahra Vang Nguyen reviews Jenna Le’s brand-new book of poetry Six Rivers. Jenna Le, a second generation …(read more)
Photocopies of Photocopies: On Bao Ninh
diaCRITICS occasionally features guest blogs and reprints. Originally published in Finding the Words, this essay by Madeleine Thien is about the casualties …(read more)
A Review of Andrew Lam’s ‘East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres’
diaCRITICS will periodically have guest blogs. Here’s one from Paul Lai, a master’s student of library science at St. Catherine University, …(read more)
lê thị diễm thúy’s ‘Tear the Pages Out: Fragments from the Gangster Tour’
diaCRITICS occasionally features guest blogs and reprints. This essay by lê thị diễm thúy originally appeared at Powells Books, as a …(read more)
The Education of Aimee Phan: On the Importance of Book Covers
diaCRITICS has the special opportunity to gain insight into the Vietnamese American writer’s workings. Aimee Phan, author of short story …(read more)
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 …(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)
