Monthly Archives: September, 2014
Jade Hidle Reviews Mark Pomeroy’s Novel The Brightwood Stillness
To be released by Oregon University Press in October, Mark Pomeroy’s The Brightwood Stillness follows two Portland high school teachers, Nate Davis and Hieu Nguyen,...
Last Days in Vietnam Premieres in Irvine
Last Days in Vietnam Premieres in IrvineTheater premiere serves as beginning of 8-month engagement campaign.This Friday, September 26, Rory Kenendy’s new documentary Last Days in...
Jade Hidle Reviews Last Days in Vietnam Documentary
An official selection at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and winner of the audience award for best feature film at the Nantucket Film Festival,...
Top Five Most Critical of July
IT’S FINALLY HERE! THE TOP FIVE MOST READ POSTS OF JULY ON DIACRITICS! READ YOUR FAVORITES AGAIN OR DISCOVER SOMETHING YOU’VE OVERLOOKED. SO, STAY TUNED...
BÀI NGỢI CA CHỮ “ƠI”
Trong bài văn ngắn này, erin Khuê Ninh, biên tập viên và nhà giáo dục, chiêm nghiệm sự tinh tế của tiếng Việt mà...
Review of “The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages”
Evyn Lê Espiritu, a UC Berkeley Rhetoric PhD student gives us an in-depth review of Mimi Thi Nguyen's The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other...
September 2014 News and Events
What happened in September 2014: news and events relating to Vietnamese at home and in the diaspora. Socio-cultural, literary, and political news and events...
The Lotus and The Storm – A Delicate Balance
During the 17-year gap between her novels Monkey Bridge (Viking, 1997) and The Lotus and the Storm, Lan Cao gave birth to a daughter...
A Review of ‘Split’ by Cathy Linh Che
Cathy Linh Che charts uneasy territory in her debut collection, Split. Divided into three parts, the collection explores the legacy of trauma through a...
Tiểu thuyết RU của nhà văn Kim Thúy: Quyển tiểu thuyết Việt Nam-Canada đầu tiên
Cây bút khách mời Nguyễn Vinh bình luận tiếp về tiểu thuyết Ru của nhà văn Kim Thúy. Quyển tiểu thuyết này được giới...