Travel
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 collection We Should Never Meet (2004) is about to release her first novel, The Reeducation of Cherry Truong. With this exciting step, Aimee Phan is happy to share her own education about the writing and publishing processes in a series of posts …(read more)
Introducing ‘A Culinary Odyssey’ — An Interview with Andrew Pham
Remember Andrew Pham’s acclaimed memoirs Catfish and Mandala and The Eaves of Heaven? He’s back — this time with culinary memories. …(read more)
For a Bag of Coffee (Giá của một gói cà phê)
Vietnam is simultaneously a major exporter of coffee (2nd largest in the world) and a primary source country for trafficked …(read more)
The Long Bien Picture Show // Buổi Chiếu Bóng Long Biên
Long Biên is a district in the city of Hà Nội that is home to about 170,000 inhabitants. For the last …(read more)
A Thousand Pictures Tells a (Epic) Story: Interviewing GB Tran
How to write with pictures and draw with words: GB Tran accomplishes this in his graphic novel, VIETNAMERICA: A Family’s …(read more)
Dark Tourism to Pulau Galang
Do you enjoy reading diaCRITICS? Then please consider subscribing! Many will be familiar with the name Pulau Galang, a tiny …(read more)
diaCRITICIZE: On motherland (re)turns
As I typed “This is the second editor’s note for diaCRITICS, which we’ve decided to call diaCRITICIZE: The Stuff Vietnamese …(read more)
There’s something for everyone at the swap meet (chợ trời)
I have been going to swap meets (chợ trời) for as long as I can remember with my family. But in …(read more)
Vietnamese Epic & The Budget Traveler
Kim Van Kieu is one of those stories that is so famous that The Lonely Planet Guidebook will advise enterprising tourists …(read more)
Paradise and Prisons: New York Times on the Con Dao Islands
Vietnam is apparently going the way of Thailand. The New York Times wrote recently about the Con Dao Islands, once …(read more)
