Reviews
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 House Press. On November 7, 2011, diaCRITICS also published Kim-An Lieberman’s interview with Bao Phi, in honor of his book release. Vina turned to their pale defeated opponent because Vietnamese women always got to get the last word and said in case …(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)
It takes a circus: Xiec Lang Toi, Part III
This is the story of how three men became a circus that became a village. In the third and last installment …(read more)
It takes a circus: Xiec Lang Toi, Part II
From one man’s a dream to a village of a circus. In the second part of the series on the …(read more)
It takes a circus: Xiec Lang Toi, Part I
Who doesn’t love a circus? With a three-part series, diaCRITICS’ guest France correspondent Ly Lan Dill takes us to the …(read more)
Gene Yang & Thien Pham’s Level Up: Review & Comic-Con
Gene Luen Yang, writer, and Thien Pham, illustrator, team up for the graphic novel, Level Up. diaCRITIC Jade Hidle gives …(read more)
Dinh Q. Lê’s "Erasure" Opens in Australia
Acclaimed artist Dinh Q. Lê, the first Vietnamese name to have a solo show at Museum of Modern Art in …(read more)
Deep Space in Comic Book Artist John Pham’s Sublife 1 and 2
How out there can we get? diaCRITIC Jade Hidle introduces us to more Vietnamese American graphic novels, this time, John …(read more)
The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly: Michelle Ton Reviews Three Films
In descending order, diaCRITIC Michelle Ton reviews three films shown at the 5th Biennial Vietnamese International Film Festival during April 2011 in Orange …(read more)
Carina Hoang’s ‘Boat People’: Short Stories, Long Memories
In 1979, in a wooden boat crowded with almost 400 people, Carina Hoang escaped Vietnam with two of her siblings. …(read more)
