Monthly Archives: July, 2012

Hoangmai Pham’s ‘Day, Night, Week, Month’

The following memoir essay is by Hoangmai Pham, who escaped from Saigon to the U.S. with her family in 1975, at age seven. Keeper of...

Hoangmai Pham’s ‘Running Saigon’

The following memoir essay is by Hoangmai Pham, who escaped from Saigon to the U.S. with her family in 1975, at age seven. Keeper...

My Living, Yet Lost, Father

diaCRITICS is happy to reprint Kyanh Tonnu's piece "My Living, Yet Lost, Father." In elegant, reflective prose, Tonnu chronicles her journey from Saigon to...

diaCRITICIZE: Viet Thanh Nguyen on the uses of rage and anger

How did I get from biracial rage to unexploded ordnance? In my paranoid, angry mind they're both connected by an understanding that we live in a world where there exists an Orientalist imagination that fetishizes Asian women and sees Asia as weak, feminine territory to be conquered by force of arms...

Reflections on My Mother’s Life

Mothers are the figures of our lives, whether our maternal relationships are happy or complicated otherwise. Guest author Christina Vo reflects upon her own...

Dinh Q. Lê’s Woven Imagery Connects Cultures — A Review

diaCRITICS is excited to reprint this review of Dinh Q. Lê's show at Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Santa Monica, California, written by Leah Ollman and...

Eric Nguyen

Eric Nguyen has a MFA in creative writing from McNeese State University and BA in sociology from the University of Maryland. He has been...

Phantoms of Asia at the Asian Art Museum

Phantoms in the museum? Sounds kind of scary. diaCRITIC Lien Truong introduces and reviews the current exhibit of contemporary Asian art at the Asian...

Vietnam War Images, Photosynthesized

Binh Danh, who makes strikingly original chlorophyl prints on foliage, is a favorite around here. We've featured him in the past, including a "must see" for...

Cam Vu Reviews Aimee Phan’s ‘The Reeducation of Cherry Truong’

Since the 2004 publication of her acclaimed short story collection We Should Never Meet, Aimee Phan has proven herself as one of the most...