Yearly Archives: 2012

diaCRITICS editor Viet Nguyen reviews Year of the Rabbit, a play about the haunting effects of war on soldiers and survivors, men and women,...

Artist Viet Le gives diaCRITICS readers an inside look into his project love bang! Through his sexperimental art music video, Viet Le explores Southeast...

Guest author Vinh Nguyen follows up on Kim Thuy's novel Ru, that had first appeared on diaCRITICS with a review of the original French...

What happened in September 2012: news and events relating to Vietnamese in Vietnam and around the world.Alrighty, so you've been back at work and...

This exhibition at the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Art Center brings together five contemporary Vietnamese-American artists who present, distort, alter and/or redefine historical forms...

Vietnamese filmmakers should quit blaming the censors and learn to make scary movies without relying only on blood and guts. A critical analysis from...

Kudos to Ocean Vuong, who has just been awarded the 2012 Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize for Younger Poets. His winning poem, "Prayer for the...

Art and lit lovers! You might recall our June 2011 fundraising efforts towards the publication of Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora: Troubling Borders in Literature and...

Guest contributor Matt Martin describes and analyzes the works of Phạm Thị Hoài, a Vietnamese writer, editor, and translator living in Germany. Hoài was born in...

diaCRITICS occasionally features guest blogs and reprints. Here is a review of Bao Phi's debut poetry collection, "Sông I Sing", by Jane. Y. Kim at...