Monthly Archives: February, 2018

Book Review: Der Amerikanische Krieg: Erinnerungskultur in Vietnam

Reviewed by Christoph Giebel. Andreas Margara’s book on the ways in which the Second Indochina War, or the American war in Việt Nam, is remembered in contemporary, reform/Đổi Mới-era Việt Nam leaves me of two minds.

Profiles in Art: MyLoan Dinh

In this artist profile, we feature art work from MyLoan Dinh recent exhibit Art of Struggle.

diaCRITICS News & Events: February 19, 2018

Socio-cultural, literary, and political news and events relating to Việt Nam and to the Vietnamese diaspora. Families of kidnapped girls suffer from fluctuating emotions of distress, confusion, anguish, despair, sadness, frustration, helplessness, hope, and more news.

In Conversation With Viet Thanh Nguyen: On Diaspora & Culture As Plurality

This is a conversation interview conducted by Dao Strom, new editor of diaCRITICS, with Viet Thanh Nguyen, author, founder and publisher of diaCRITICS.

diaCRITICS in the Year of the Earth Dog

We welcome Tết and the Lunar New Year (Year of the Earth Dog) by launching a new phase of diaCRITICS. Our publisher and founder, Viet Thanh Nguyen, will hand over the managing editorship of diaCRITICS to Dao Strom, who has been a contributing writer and literary series editor for Out of the Margins, since 2011.

Lessons Vietnamese Fathers Learn From Their Children

This op-ed essay by diaCRITICS publisher Viet Thanh Nguyen is a reprint from The NYT Opinion section on Jan. 20, 2018.If you enjoy reading...

diaCRITICS News & Events: February 5, 2018

Socio-cultural, literary, and political news and events relating to Việt Nam and to the Vietnamese diaspora. Prize-winning poet Ocean Vuong wins the TS Eliot prize, and more news.

Art Exhibit: Hướng Nước / Inheritance / Water (Preview)

We are inheritors. Of water. Of land. Of memories. Of histories we do not always choose. Of ancestors. Of ghosts. Of grief. Of ghosts of ancestors, culture, memory, trauma. We are inheritors of stories. Of arrivals and escapes. Of flight. ...