From my experience in both high school and college, the literary material offered by almost all my English literature classes was curated...

The success of blockbuster movies, such as “Black Panther” and “Crazy Rich Asians,” with its accurate and holistic representation of...

Many Vietnamese and Vietnamese Americans are quite familiar with Vietnam’s literary classic, The Tale of Kiều by Nguyễn Du (1766–1820) in...

Even with the push for progressive and multicultural children’s literature, it still required a bit of searching to find a Filipino...

A Vietnamese American poet, Ocean Vương’s phenomenal achievement of winning the Forward prize, Whiting award, and the Thom Gunn award,...

When we think of language and its written form, it goes through many changes and processes over time due to societal pressures of...

Thi Bùi’s graphic novel, The Best We Could Do, offers an illustrative perspective that reflects on the gap between first and second...

Reading multicultural children’s literature, whether in teaching to curriculum or reading at home, allows for a progressive approach for...

With intense and raw emotions, Lily Hoang transforms her work, A Bestiary, through the contemporary form of writing, using non-fictional...

Read part one of this article, "Part 1 - Challenging the Stereotype: Do Vietnamese People Eat Dogs?" here. Vietnamese people are often...

Second generation Vietnamese Americans may not be familiar with a song called Lý Cây Đa, but if we ask our parents about it, not only will t

Ocean Vuong’s poetry collection, Night Sky With Exit Wounds (Copper Canyon Press 2016), is the most beautifully written book I have read...

How is a poem transformed through translation? What is lost, and what remains true to the original? Vietnamese is a strongly idiomatic...

One of my great regrets in life is I never learned to write in Vietnamese. I’ve always thought that speaking it was enough—as in, it...

Last month, Trami and I grabbed coffee and discussed her debut novel, released in July. The following is an edited transcript of our...

On my tombstone, I would like the following words: Vuong Vu was a publisher of poetry. I’m not even joking. Since 2012, I have published...

The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as five other awards, The Sympathizer is the...