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 (Literature and Arts newspaper). As the poet Dạ Thảo Phương alleged in a series of viral Facebook posts, Lương...
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. F...
By Laurel Kendall, author of Mediums and Magical Things: Statues, Paintings, and Masks in Asian Places
The 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 ...
By Stuart Schrader, author of Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing
July 17, 2020
Fifty 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 ...
By Jana K. Lipman, author of In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Repatriates
On 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 politica...