Category: Anna Nguyen
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Theory after Academia: The Frenchmen, A Loverβs Discourse, and the Return to Everyday Life” by Anna Nguyen β Emily Eakin. The Frenchmen: Or, My Life in Theory. Penguin, 2026. 496…
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Never Finish Making Refuge: Mai-Linh Hongβs Continental Drift” by Anna Nguyen Click HERE to read all entrieson Continental Drift. Mai-Linh Hong. Continental Drift, Trio House Press, 2026. 108 pgs. There…
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ 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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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “The Silence Between Metaphors: IldikΓ³ Enyedi’s Silent Friend” by Anna Nguyen Click HERE to read all entries in Chaon SILENT FRIEND. IldikΓ³ Enyedi (director), Silent Friend, 2026. 147 min. In…
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ 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, βNo one speaks Vietnamese,β and worries it into grief, form, and theory. Between a fatherβs aphasic silence and a motherβs nightly monologues, Vietnamese persists. English, institutional and…
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Editor’s note: Anna Nguyenβs essay critiques the literary marketplaceβs 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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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] βFrom Star to Performer-Worker: Rethinking Anna May Wong Through Labourβ by Anna Nguyen Yiman Wang, To Be An Actress: Labor and Performance in Anna May Wongβs Cross-Media World, University of…
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[ESSAY] βMaggie Cheung and the Refusal of Cinematic Immortalityβ 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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