Vinh Do
‘The Long Reckoning’ asks: Is Vietnam a country, a tourist destination, or a war?
A young Vietnamese girl stands on a precarious-looking and unfinished bridge. A vista of lush mountains of unique limestone formations lies before her. Her body faces the mountains, her posture upright, her glance is...
Love, loss, sex, relationships, race and hate in Hieu Minh Nguyen’s “Not Here”
This little book of 39 poems deserves to be read in one sitting – so compelling is its material, so fluid its prose. The collection’s topics of love, loss, sex, relationships, race, desire and...
100 essays on the fortunes and reversals of fortunes that make Viet Nam the...
I write this on the eve of a long-anticipated trip to Việt Nam. By a stroke of luck, a friend gave me Hữu Ngọc’s book, Viet Nam Tradition and Change, weeks earlier and since...
Viet Dinh’s After Disasters is about human desire
Wildfire spreading across California. Cholera breaking out in Haiti. Civil war ensnaring children in Syria. Flooding in Louisiana. All this from a major American newspaper reported in August alone. These are reported disasters. One...
‘Lotus and the Storm’ a tale imbued with history, poetry
"In Lan Cao’s The Lotus and the Storm, a novel about love, war, and loss, half-light becomes a metaphor used by the author for the state in which her characters live, except that her characters never transition and are caught in between places."
Gay Christian Experiences Worth Writing Home About
Book Review: Does Jesus Really Love Me?
By Vinh Do
Stories of faith and religious experiences are inherently risky. They end up sounding simplistic, cliché, irrelevant or extreme. Rare are the stories that make you sit...
Andrew Lam’s East Eats West
While the author is extolled for his writing prowess, this reviewer believes true depth of his emotion and release has yet to be shared.
New Vietnamese Film “Fool For Love” A Surprisingly Delightful Hit
Sometimes a movie comes along that manages to lighten your mood without ever having to disturb your intellect or deepen your understanding. That movie is “Fool for Love”.
The Vietnamese title is “De Mai Tinh”....
New Vietnamese Film “Fool For Love” A Surprisingly Delightful Hit
Sometimes a movie comes along that manages to lighten your mood without ever having to disturb your intellect or deepen your understanding. That movie is “Fool for Love”.
The Vietnamese title is “De Mai Tinh”....
Cookbooks Get the Taste Test
Cookbooks are more than recipes. They hold standards for posterity. They preserve memories of dishes made, savored, and loved. They are testimonies of cooks who have lived through eating, dining, and feasting. They are...
