Thao Nguyen

Thao Nguyen is an artist, songwriter, touring musician, and producer based in Oakland, California. Her latest album, Thao & The Get Down Stay Down’s Temple, was released in May of 2020.

Thao Nguyen

Features

Song and Dance

You know, I think these days we would call it a mild stroke . . . yes, I think your dad had a mild stroke. Could that happen from […]

IN Spring 2022

Fall 2023

On Craftsmanship (essay) & 1991 State of Human Rights Address

The Visitation of God; The Leaf Blower among the Swimming Pool Lights; E...

First Aid

Teaching Ecopoetry in a Time of Climate Change

The Lonely Ruralist

Influenza 1918

Itō Grows Ill, A Bird Transforms into a Blossom, and The Giant Trees St...

Jerry’s Dirt [Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

This Is the House that Cotton Built (fold-out insert)

Microchimerism

Painting What Is Said and What Is Kept Silent

Sense and Element (with an interview by Gerald Maa)

Returns: Cherokee Diaspora and Art (with an introduction by Ashley Holland)

Ambient Works

on The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act by Isaac Butler

on Sea Change by Gina Chung

on Nervous: Essays on Heritage and Healing by Jen Soriano

Janine Joseph Takes on How Personhood and Credibility Enter the Record (on Janine Joseph’s...

South to a New Place: Imani Perry and Adolph Reed Jr. on Racial Reckoning...

on This Afterlife: Selected Poems by A. E. Stallings

on The Math Campers by Dan Chiasson

on White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link

Fall 2023

On Craftsmanship (essay) & 1991 State of Human Rights Address

The Visitation of God; The Leaf Blower among the Swimming Pool Lights; E...

First Aid

Teaching Ecopoetry in a Time of Climate Change

The Lonely Ruralist

Influenza 1918

Itō Grows Ill, A Bird Transforms into a Blossom, and The Giant Trees St...

Jerry’s Dirt [Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

This Is the House that Cotton Built (fold-out insert)

Microchimerism

Painting What Is Said and What Is Kept Silent

Sense and Element (with an interview by Gerald Maa)

Returns: Cherokee Diaspora and Art (with an introduction by Ashley Holland)

Ambient Works

on The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act by Isaac Butler

on Sea Change by Gina Chung

on Nervous: Essays on Heritage and Healing by Jen Soriano

Janine Joseph Takes on How Personhood and Credibility Enter the Record (on Janine Joseph’s...

South to a New Place: Imani Perry and Adolph Reed Jr. on Racial Reckoning...

on This Afterlife: Selected Poems by A. E. Stallings

on The Math Campers by Dan Chiasson

on White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link

Fall 2023

Thao Nguyen

Song and Dance

Jerry’s Dirt

[Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

Jerry’s Dirt

[Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...