Vague Blue
terry nguyen, ArtlanceA critic's notebook. Dispatches on art, literature, culture, etc.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 43 | Founded | 7 years ago | Last Issue | 8 days ago |
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777 for July
Nothing better than a good old listicle. I wanted to do a 2025 recap, and then winter came and went, and now the solstice’s passed too, so I figured I’d share what I’ve been enjoying before heading to a month-long residency in Vietnam (!)....
Heat Wave Horrors
This began as a “what I’m reading” post and soon spiraled out of control.
♦️ MENTIONED: Roberto Bolaño’s 2666; Netflix’s Maternal Instinct; Conor Hultman’s conceptual poetry collection DOE (reviewed by David Porter); Kiyosh...
The Art of Rewatching
Crystal Films at Corridor
In April, I attended a talk on the “language of cinema” with filmmakers Tony Bui and Tran Anh Hung, who won Best Director at Cannes for The Taste of Things (2023). The conversation was structured like a masterclas...
Memorial Park
Minh Nguyen’s Memorial Park: Revisiting Vietnam (2025) is a collection of critical essays on Vietnamese culture and art—an itinerant travelogue that is also an attempt at “find[ing] out what’s left of the revolution.” Nguyen emigrated to th...
waiting for :: writing through
“We line one day up after the other, day after day, as if the world did not exist, though daily it seeks us out with such violence.” —Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation
There is a viral photobooth that I often pass on my mid-afternoon w...
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