Yearly Archives: 2010
Empowerment or Exploitation? Sexuality in Để Mai Tính
diaCRITICS will periodically have guest blogs. Here's one about the sexual politics of Để Mai Tính/Fool for Love from Lee Ngo, a third-year Ph.D. student...
Việt Lê: ‘boy bang’ at Java Gallery in Phnom Penh
–Exhibition opening with special guest band Cartoon Emo:Thursday, November 4, 20106pm exhibition opening & 7:30pm concertFREE Artist talk: 5:30pm Sunday, November 7Java Gallery – 56 Sihanouk Blvd, Phnom Penh, Cambodia–Việt Lê,...
A Review of Monique Truong’s Bitter in the Mouth
diaCRITICS will periodically have guest blogs. Here's one from Stephen Sohn, professor of English at Stanford University, where he is completing a manuscript on Asian...
Trần Anh Hùng’s ‘Norwegian Wood’: A Preview
Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood concerns a young university student’s encounters with love, death, and loss in 1960s Japan, as he is torn between his...
Linh Dinh reads for DVAN in San Francisco
In 2021, it came to our attention that the featured writer, Linh Dinh, has expressed anti-Black, anit-Semitic, and overall harmful views since the publication...
The Frogs Are Gone: Viet Nam Literature Seminar 2
Don't strain your weak eyes looking
The frogs are gone from their bushes
The yellow lizards are watching
The bugs are there, creeping
The flies and ants and...
Vietnam The World Tour: The Propeller Group
As a lot of the posts on this blog have mentioned, Viet Nam, the Vietnamese, and the Vietnamese diaspora shouldn't have their culture(s) defined...
Effective instability: A Review of Hoa Nguyen’s Hecate Lochia
diaCRITICS will periodically have guest blogs. Here's one from Stephen Sohn, professor of English at Stanford University, where he is completing a manuscript on Asian...
Experimental Vietnamese Music
So who says that Vietnamese music is all about sad songs and Trinh Cong Son and cai luong and Linda Trang Dai? Not C-drik....
The Education of a Vietnamese American Writer
diaCRITICS will periodically post blogs from other places. Here's a guest blog from Andrew Lam, for those of who might have missed this essay that's...