Category: Kathy Nguyen
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We are very pleased to announce that we have nominated the following two stories for the 2027 edition of Best of the Net anthology. Congratulations to Sajita and Kathy. Good luck! — “Eighteen Steps” by Sajita Nair— “Sweating Labour, Angry Tears”…
![[BEST OF THE NET 2027] Cha’s Nominations—Stories](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/screenshot-2026-07-02-at-22.58.36.png?w=800)
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[CONVERSATION] “speak easy” by Kathy Ngoc Nguyen and An Tran Kathy Ngoc Nguyen’s introduction: Before meeting and getting to know An Tran, I was a fan of his collection of short stories, Meditations on the Mother Tongue (C&R Press, 2017),…
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[FICTION] “Sweating Labour, Angry Tears” by Kathy Nguyen In 2021, when the American economy slowly reopened after the world barely survived the dystopian ruinations caused by the pandemic, I chauffeured Má to one of her appointments in Fayetteville. Forty-six years…
![[FICTION] “Sweating Labour, Angry Tears” by Kathy Ngoc Nguyen](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/abstract-orange-brushstroke-white-paper.jpg?w=1024)
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “When Cosmopolitanism Traverses Across the Screen Beyond Subtitles—Felicia Chan’s Cosmopolitan Cinema: Cross-Cultural Encounters in East Asian Film” by Kathy Nguyen Felicia Chan, Cosmopolitan Cinema: Cross-Cultural Encounters in East Asian Film,…
![[REVIEW] “When Cosmopolitanism Traverses Across the Screen Beyond Subtitles—Felicia Chan’s 𝐶𝑜𝑠𝑚𝑜𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑛 𝐶𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑚𝑎: 𝐶𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑠-𝐶𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝐸𝑛𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝐸𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝐴𝑠𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝐹𝑖𝑙𝑚” by Kathy Nguyen](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/east-asian-cinema.jpg?w=980)
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