Vũ Đình Giang’s “Parallels” is not for the faint-hearted. diacritics.org/2026/01/book...

"Motion sickness runs on my mother’s side of the family." diacritics.org/2025/05/moti...

As we take our yearly December break, a reminder that we’re open to submissions! Visit diacritics.org/submit/ for more info.

"If you don’t see yourself in literature, you don’t feel part of the community, you don’t feel part of this world." diacritics.org/2025/09/inte...

Two grandmothers, two sets of cultural traditions and superstitions. diacritics.org/2025/11/batt...

Vietnamese Czech director Dužan Duong talks with May Ngo about his film “Summer School, 2001.” diacritics.org/2025/11/inte...

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...

A tale of southern inheritances. diacritics.org/2025/11/from...

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...

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...

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.” diacritics.org/2025/09/inte...

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...

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.

@knguyen.bsky.social on @thedailyshow.com! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Dsp...

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...

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...

After a summer break, diaCRITICS is back! And we’re proud to introduce you to our new website: www.diacritics.org.

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...

Vi got her copies already and is signing 100 of them as we speak. malarkeybooks.com/store/myarde...

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...

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 aaww.org/how-to-cook-...

@nguyenterry.bsky.social explores faith, desire, and the literary landscape of conversion experiences.

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...

I spy @trungles.com!

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...

Today’s reading: this enigmatic poem in Da Màu Magazine, which was translated by WWB contributor Đặng Thơ Thơ (it’s also available in Đỗ Lê Anhdao’s original Vietnamese text). Read it on their site: damau.org/103132/jing (1)

Steven Duong on writing poetry that captures the intimate experience of a person being tattooed.

Cody LeRoy Wilson at the Contemporary American Theater Festival dctheaterarts.org/2025/07/15/d...

Reading "The Family Recipe" by Carolyn Huynh is like sitting with a Vietnamese cousin in a cafe while she catches you up on the latest family drama—lots of laughing and gasps of “Trời ơi…” with every update. dvan.org/2025/06/book...

Read a new short story by Vũ Trọng Hiếu. dvan.org/2025/06/brot...

Celebrate ‪@wwborders.bsky.social‬'s “Untethered States: Literature of the Vietnamese Diaspora" on July 24. www.eventbrite.com/e/launch-par...

"The Colors of April" brings together more than two dozen literary voices from the United States and Vietnam. dvan.org/2025/05/book...

"The war never happened and Saigon never changed its name. Bố Mẹ are lounging in neon plastic chairs, he sips cà phê sữa đá while she spoons chè ba màu." Read "In Another Life," a new poem by Thi Nguyen. dvan.org/2025/05/in-a...

The spring issue of ‪@wwborders.bsky.social‬, edited by Thuy Dinh, highlights prose and poetry in translation by five writers of the Vietnamese diaspora. wordswithoutborders.org/read/collect...

On 15 April 2025, Riverside Theatres presented “The Things We Carry" featuring Annabella Luu, Thang Dac Luong, Antoinette Luu, Chris Tran, and diaCRITICS Contributing Editor Sheila Ngoc Pham. Read their conversation: dvan.org/2025/06/the-...

For many Degar/Montagnard Americans, April 30 does not have the same resonance as it does to Vietnamese Americans. dvan.org/2025/05/does...

“Most of the world knew him as Brigadier General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan, the subject of Eddie Adams’ photograph 'Saigon Execution.' I only knew him as Bác Loan.” dvan.org/2025/05/we-o...

Curator Terri Le takes a look back at "Textures of Remembrance," a traveling exhibition of work by Vietnamese diasporic artists and writers, and its impact. dvan.org/2025/05/text...

Read "Departures" by ‪@maidervang.bsky.social ‬, from her collection "Primordial" (out from @graywolfpress.bsky.social‬) dvan.org/2025/05/depa...

Kenny Nguyen at Sundaram Tagore Gallery hyperallergic.com/1014287/kenn...

"Motion sickness runs on my mother’s side of the family." Read new fiction by Brigid Leahy. dvan.org/2025/05/moti...

Tuan Andrew Nguyen at Galerie Quynh www.artforum.com/events/tuan-...

Khuê Phạm's "Brothers and Ghosts" is a groundbreaking work, the first major novel from the Vietnamese diaspora in Germany. Marguerite Nguyen talks with Phạm about the writing process, how the book has been received, and more. dvan.org/2025/05/inte...