Monthly Archives: July, 2011

Paradise Shot — Norway in the World’s Arms

diaCRITICS contributor Trangđài Glassey-Trầnguyễn, a doctoral student in the United States, offers an overview of the Vietnamese communities in Scandanavia while reflecting upon the recent...

Jade Hidle: A Review of Gene Yang and Thien Pham’s Level Up

Gene Luen Yang, writer, and Thien Pham, illustrator, team up for the graphic novel, Level Up. diaCRITIC Jade Hidle gives us a look at...

Lists of Discovery

Do cars stop for you at intersections? Can you tell when a papaya will ripen? Is Heineken your beer of choice?  These question may...

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 New York, is well-known...

Julie Thi Underhill

Julie Thi Underhill is an artist, photographer, filmmaker, writer, historian and doctoral candidate in Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. She specializes in Cham studies,...

Nora Taylor

Nora Taylor is a Chicago-based art historian of modern and contemporary Vietnamese art and professor of Southeast Asian Art History at the School of...

Dao Strom

Dao Strom is the Oregon-based author/musician of two books of fiction and the hybrid-forms memoir We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People + music album East/West. She...

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Viet Thanh Nguyen is the author of The Sympathizer, which won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, and a story collection, The Refugees, as well as...

Khanh Ho

Khanh Ho is an assistant professor of English at Grinnell College. He is working on a scholarly book reassessing spirituality in Asian American literature....

Jade Hidle

Jade Hidle is a Vietnamese-Irish-Norwegian writer and educator. She holds an MFA in creative writing from CSU Long Beach and a PhD in literature from...