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Excerpts from "The Cleaving: Vietnamese Writers in the Diaspora"

Fifty years after resettlement following the US War in Vietnam, nearly 17,000 Southeast Asian refugees are living with deportation orders. Author Jennifer Huynh explains how Vietnamese communities are building systems of mutual aid to support each other through ongoing removal by the US government.

Marking fifty years after the end of the Vietnam War, Allen L. Tran, author of A LIFE OF WORRY, looks at the lingering anxieties that have taken hold of the country.

Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, co-editor of "The Cleaving," on the invisibility of Vietnamese American writers and poets and bringing light to their work.

Earlier this year, Vietnamese literary circles were shocked by allegations of sexual assault and harassment against the poet Lương Ngọc An, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Báo Văn Nghệ.

By 1967, the commercial and political impact on Hollywood of the sixties counterculture had become impossible to ignore. The studios were in bad shape, still contending with a generation-long box office slump and struggling to get young people into the habit of going to the movies. Film historian J

By Laurel Kendall, author of Mediums and Magical Things: Statues, Paintings, and Masks in Asian PlacesThe paintings of bold-faced gods in the Korean shaman’s shrine had fallen to the floor and stuck together. “They had been fighting,” the shaman said. They had caused her a season of bad luck, i

By Stuart Schrader, author of Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American PolicingJuly 17, 2020Fifty years ago today, Life magazine printed photographs taken inside a prison on an island off the coast of Vietnam called Côn Sơn.The photos depicted a wing of a

By Jana K. Lipman, author of In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and RepatriatesOn World Refugee Day, the UNHCR estimates that there are over 25 million refugees around the world. Although the United States has always accepted refugees selectively based on its political prioritie