Yearly Archives: 2014
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...
diaCRITICS in Vietnamese | diaCRITICS tiếng Việt
Announcing a new translation project in Vietnamese from diaCRITICS. Please scroll down to read this post in Vietnamese. Thông báo về dự án dịch bài sang tiếng Việt của...
August 2014 News and Events Updates
What happened in August 2014: news and events updates relating to Vietnamese at home and in the diaspora.Events• The Archaeological Institute of America's Art...
Postcard from the End of America: Wisconsin
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...
Anvi Hoàng’s travelogue: Người miền Bắc | People from the North
Regional differences pose interesting questions. Here are some reflections from Anvi Hoàng as she traveled for two months in Vietnam from South to North....
Homelessness? Or a Kind of Freedom?
The narrative surrounding diaspora usually depicts the painful loss of one's identity and homeland. Audrey Chin, author of As The Heart Bones Break, challenges this...