Category: Anna Nguyen
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่ถ FIRST IMPRESSIONS ่ถ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Pot Noodles and Power: Junko Takase’s May You Have Delicious Meals” by Anna Nguyen Junko Takase (author), Morgan Giles (translator). May You Have Delicious Meals, Penguin Random House, 2025. 133…
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่ถ FIRST IMPRESSIONS ่ถ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “The Silence Between Metaphors: Ildikรณ Enyedi’s Silent Friend” by Anna Nguyen Click HERE to read all entries in Chaon SILENT FRIEND. Ildikรณ Enyedi (director), Silent Friend, 2026. 147 min. In…
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่ถ FIRST IMPRESSIONS ่ถ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “Remixing Memory, Forgetting Politics: On Wong Kar-wai and the Limits of Bricolage” by Anna Nguyen Click HERE to read all entries in Chaon Remixing Wong Kar-wai. Giorgio Biancorosso. Remixing Wong Kar-wai: Music, Bricolage, and…
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Editor’s note: Anna Nguyen’s essay “A Dead Language” turns on an offhand slight, โNo one speaks Vietnamese,โ and worries it into grief, form, and theory. Between a fatherโs aphasic silence and a motherโs nightly monologues, Vietnamese persists. English, institutional and…
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Editor’s note: Anna Nguyenโs essay critiques the literary marketplaceโs fixation on identity, arguing that it rewards legible, consumable narratives while punishing rigorous resistance. Drawing on Glissant, Jordan, and Davis, she challenges flattened intersectionality, positionality statements, and the colonial gaze masquerading…
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่ถ FIRST IMPRESSIONS ่ถ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] โFrom Star to Performer-Worker: Rethinking Anna May Wong Through Labourโ by Anna Nguyen Yiman Wang, To Be An Actress: Labor and Performance in Anna May Wongโs Cross-Media World, University of…
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[ESSAY] โMaggie Cheung and the Refusal of Cinematic Immortalityโ by Anna Nguyen I have many confessions. I am exhausted by the discourse surrounding Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love (2000). I am exhausted by fandoms that fixate on aesthetic…
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