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magazine of the diasporic vietnamese artists network
Dương Hướng’s 1991 classic “No Man River” gets an English translation by Quan Manh Ha and Charles Waugh. diacritics.org/2025/11/book...
The Human Cost of War - diaCRITICS
Dương Hướng’s No Man River, an award-winning and widely read modern Vietnamese classic, masterfully explores life in rural north Vietnam during the French Indochina War, Vietnam War, and the border wa...
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November 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Dương Hướng’s 1991 classic “No Man River” gets an English translation by Quan Manh Ha and Charles Waugh. diacritics.org/2025/11/book...
Through conversations, Diane Fox presents the human cost of chemical warfare. diacritics.org/2025/10/book...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Through conversations, Diane Fox presents the human cost of chemical warfare. diacritics.org/2025/10/book...
A tale of southern inheritances. diacritics.org/2025/11/from...
From South Vietnam to the Bible Belt - diaCRITICS
My childhood home in Texas sits on a street off a major road lined with eight Protestant Christian churches. I know this because I used to count them on the way home from school, wondering as a ten-ye...
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November 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
A tale of southern inheritances. diacritics.org/2025/11/from...
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So nice to see this long review of Quynh Tran's brilliant Shade and Breeze, which was published in my translation last year from Lolli Editions and is still waiting for a US publisher. Thank you @diacritics-dvan.bsky.social ! diacritics.org/2025/10/book...
A Vietnamese Finnish Childhood - diaCRITICS
Shade and Breeze is the debut work of Quynh Tran, a writer and graduate of the prestigious Biskops-Arnös Writers' School in Sweden. The novel is a collection of vignettes centering on a young Vietname...
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November 4, 2025 at 12:30 AM
So nice to see this long review of Quynh Tran's brilliant Shade and Breeze, which was published in my translation last year from Lolli Editions and is still waiting for a US publisher. Thank you @diacritics-dvan.bsky.social ! diacritics.org/2025/10/book...
Quynh Tran’s debut novel opens a rare window into the diasporic Vietnamese experience in Finland. diacritics.org/2025/10/book...
A Vietnamese Finnish Childhood - diaCRITICS
Shade and Breeze is the debut work of Quynh Tran, a writer and graduate of the prestigious Biskops-Arnös Writers' School in Sweden. The novel is a collection of vignettes centering on a young Vietname...
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October 31, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Quynh Tran’s debut novel opens a rare window into the diasporic Vietnamese experience in Finland. diacritics.org/2025/10/book...
Dương Diệu Linh’s film is a visual project grounded in northern Vietnamese proverbs and Southeast Asian folklore. diacritics.org/2025/10/viet...
Viet Film Fest 2025: Don’t Cry, Butterfly - diaCRITICS
Don’t Cry, Butterfly (Mưa trên cánh bướm) is the debut feature film of Vietnamese director Dương Diệu Linh. Her innovative film, where family drama meets horror meets comedy, has enchanted its audienc...
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October 23, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Dương Diệu Linh’s film is a visual project grounded in northern Vietnamese proverbs and Southeast Asian folklore. diacritics.org/2025/10/viet...
The phenomenon of Việt Kiều returning is nothing new, but what feels different now, however, is the scale, the facile journey, and the dramatic material changes within Vietnam since the early 2000s, writes Vinh Phu Pham. diacritics.org/2025/10/dear...
Dear, Fellow Việt Kiều - diaCRITICS
I recently traveled to Cát Tiên National Park with my partner, an evolutionary biologist, in search of what Vietnam’s natural beauty still had to offer. This park, one of the largest tropical forests ...
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October 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM
The phenomenon of Việt Kiều returning is nothing new, but what feels different now, however, is the scale, the facile journey, and the dramatic material changes within Vietnam since the early 2000s, writes Vinh Phu Pham. diacritics.org/2025/10/dear...
This year, Viet Film Fest featured eleven short film sets. diaCRITICS contributing writer Cathy Duong highlights a number of short films across these brilliantly curated sets. diacritics.org/2025/10/viet...
Viet Film Fest 2025: Select Shorts - diaCRITICS
This year, Viet Film Fest featured eleven short film sets spanning themes from “Phim Femme” that expands Vietnamese femininity with queer narratives, to “Ethe(real)” where supernatural forces and spec...
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October 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This year, Viet Film Fest featured eleven short film sets. diaCRITICS contributing writer Cathy Duong highlights a number of short films across these brilliantly curated sets. diacritics.org/2025/10/viet...
“If you don’t see yourself in literature, you don’t feel part of the community, you don’t feel part of this world.”
@aimeephan.bsky.social chats with Melina Kritikopoulos about her new YA novel, “The Lost Queen.”
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@aimeephan.bsky.social chats with Melina Kritikopoulos about her new YA novel, “The Lost Queen.”
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In Conversation with Aimee Phan - diaCRITICS
Aimee Phan's first book, We Should Never Meet, was published in 2004. A linked short story collection, the book tracks the lives of eight characters across three decades and two continents in the afte...
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October 7, 2025 at 12:32 AM
“If you don’t see yourself in literature, you don’t feel part of the community, you don’t feel part of this world.”
@aimeephan.bsky.social chats with Melina Kritikopoulos about her new YA novel, “The Lost Queen.”
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@aimeephan.bsky.social chats with Melina Kritikopoulos about her new YA novel, “The Lost Queen.”
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There's still time to apply to the 2026 Tin House Winter Online Workshop!
Applications close today, October 6th. Don't miss out on your chance to expand your writing community and level up your craft at this fully remote experience!
Apply here: tinhouseworkshop.submittable.com/submit/17761...
Applications close today, October 6th. Don't miss out on your chance to expand your writing community and level up your craft at this fully remote experience!
Apply here: tinhouseworkshop.submittable.com/submit/17761...
October 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM
There's still time to apply to the 2026 Tin House Winter Online Workshop!
Applications close today, October 6th. Don't miss out on your chance to expand your writing community and level up your craft at this fully remote experience!
Apply here: tinhouseworkshop.submittable.com/submit/17761...
Applications close today, October 6th. Don't miss out on your chance to expand your writing community and level up your craft at this fully remote experience!
Apply here: tinhouseworkshop.submittable.com/submit/17761...
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Souvankham Thammavongsa and Apoorva Bradshaw-Mittal discuss her forthcoming novel “Pick a Color,” the art of absence, making what is real fiction, and keeping the reader wanting for more.
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October 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Souvankham Thammavongsa and Apoorva Bradshaw-Mittal discuss her forthcoming novel “Pick a Color,” the art of absence, making what is real fiction, and keeping the reader wanting for more.
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October 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Read a new poem by Thái Hà, with art by Lien Truong. diacritics.org/2025/09/poet...
Sugar Hunger - diaCRITICS
After Jihyun Yun’s “War Soup” and a recipe for sponge cake, a poem for Lien Truong’s cake paintings *** Preheat the oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit, butter and line the base of two cake tins with bakin...
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September 25, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Read a new poem by Thái Hà, with art by Lien Truong. diacritics.org/2025/09/poet...
New on diaCRITICS: a short story by Đặng Thơ Thơ, translated by the author and Thuy Dinh. diacritics.org/2025/09/fict...
Opening the Future - diaCRITICS
Translated by Đặng Thơ Thơ and Thuy Dinh, from the short story “Mở Tương Lai” by Đặng Thơ Thơ. It is well-known among Vietnamese writers of the diaspora that Đặng Thơ Thơ comes from an illustrious yet...
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September 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
New on diaCRITICS: a short story by Đặng Thơ Thơ, translated by the author and Thuy Dinh. diacritics.org/2025/09/fict...
Vietnamese Amerasians face challenges both in Vietnam and in the diaspora. Amerasians Without Borders founder Jimmy Miller wants to help. diacritics.org/2025/09/viet...
Vietnamese Amerasians Today - diaCRITICS
During the Vietnam War, thousands of Vietnamese Amerasian children were born. Vietnamese Amerasians, the children of American fathers and Vietnamese mothers, encompassed a wide array of ethnicities. T...
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September 16, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Vietnamese Amerasians face challenges both in Vietnam and in the diaspora. Amerasians Without Borders founder Jimmy Miller wants to help. diacritics.org/2025/09/viet...
Ocean Vuong’s sophomore novel is a heart-aching story of working class grit and comradery in the face of exploitation, violence, and neglect. diacritics.org/2025/09/book...
Resisting Bleak Realities - diaCRITICS
“If you must know anything, know that the hardest task is to live only once.” — Ocean Vuong, from “Immigrant Haibun” The line from “Immigrant Haibun” captures the tragedy of reckoning with survivor’s ...
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September 10, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Ocean Vuong’s sophomore novel is a heart-aching story of working class grit and comradery in the face of exploitation, violence, and neglect. diacritics.org/2025/09/book...
After a summer break, diaCRITICS is back! And we’re proud to introduce you to our new website: www.diacritics.org.
September 5, 2025 at 5:08 PM
After a summer break, diaCRITICS is back! And we’re proud to introduce you to our new website: www.diacritics.org.
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To mark the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, we're sharing @emtran.bsky.social's essay "Miss Saigon," originally published in our Spring 2017 issue.
Read the full essay along with E.M. Tran's reflection on our blog: prairieschooner.unl.edu/digital-scho...
Read the full essay along with E.M. Tran's reflection on our blog: prairieschooner.unl.edu/digital-scho...
!["The further away I get from something as large as Hurricane Katrina, the more I understand that disasters such as these cannot be disentangled from human details. How important it is, more than ever, to resist flattening the storm (or the fires, or the earthquakes, or the floods) into something quick and forgettable, detached from individual experience."
-E.M. Tran reflecting on her essay "Miss Saigon," originally published in
Spring 2017
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August 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM
To mark the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, we're sharing @emtran.bsky.social's essay "Miss Saigon," originally published in our Spring 2017 issue.
Read the full essay along with E.M. Tran's reflection on our blog: prairieschooner.unl.edu/digital-scho...
Read the full essay along with E.M. Tran's reflection on our blog: prairieschooner.unl.edu/digital-scho...
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Now available to preorder! Dao Strom’s TENDER REVOLUTIONS/YELLOW SONGS 💛✨ 4 books & an LP in whatever combination your heart desires. the3rdthing.press/product/tend...
Tender Revolutions / Yellow Songs – The 3rd Thing
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August 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Now available to preorder! Dao Strom’s TENDER REVOLUTIONS/YELLOW SONGS 💛✨ 4 books & an LP in whatever combination your heart desires. the3rdthing.press/product/tend...
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Is this… my first Bluesky post?? Absolutely honored to have an essay out now with @aaww-nyc.bsky.social!! Thank you to the team for giving this piece a home
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How to Cook for a Mom Who Can No Longer Cook
My mom and I share a common language in food. Even at the peak of our most destructive and explosive fights, we would pause to eat together.
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August 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Is this… my first Bluesky post?? Absolutely honored to have an essay out now with @aaww-nyc.bsky.social!! Thank you to the team for giving this piece a home
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@nguyenterry.bsky.social explores faith, desire, and the literary landscape of conversion experiences.
Searching For Divine Love: On the Literary Landscape of Conversion Experiences
Last year, on an unseasonably warm November day, I went to mass. The idea came to me one afternoon, a random stranger knocking on the mind’s door. Not dangerous or unwelcome, but certainly unexpect…
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July 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
@nguyenterry.bsky.social explores faith, desire, and the literary landscape of conversion experiences.
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Today is LINH LY's one year anniversary 💗 Give my book a read (or listen, with the super sale below!) ~~~ bookshop.org/p/books/linh...
July 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Today is LINH LY's one year anniversary 💗 Give my book a read (or listen, with the super sale below!) ~~~ bookshop.org/p/books/linh...
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Check out our Fall 2025 #YAlit anticipated book picks + highlight titles across publishers from team #comics at @publisherswkly.bsky.social
Fall 2025 Preview: Young Adult Comics
Romance, magic, and mystery from top comics talents like Trung Le Nguyen, Mariko Tamaki, and Ngozi Ukazu, plus plenty of promising debuts, make for an exciting season.
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July 22, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Over at @newenglandreview.bsky.social, @cathylinhche.bsky.social talks about counter-narratives, the ethics of documentary authority, and her book "Becoming Ghost." nereview.com/cathy-linh-c...
Cathy Linh Che – New England Review
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July 22, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Over at @newenglandreview.bsky.social, @cathylinhche.bsky.social talks about counter-narratives, the ethics of documentary authority, and her book "Becoming Ghost." nereview.com/cathy-linh-c...