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 2024

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...

Fission or, Eclipse (with an introduction by Katie Geha)

The Space Between Things

Architecture and Song

Just Is

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

Microchimerism

on Soft Apocalypse by Leah Nieboer

on Pilgrims 2.0 by Lindsey Harding

on Dear Chrysanthemums: A Novel in Stories by Fiona Sze-Lorrain

on A Quitter’s Paradise by Elysha Chang

Delicacy, Divinity, and Desire in Five Recent Poetry Debuts (on Ae Hee Lee’s Asterism;...

on Trace Evidence by Charif Shanahan

on Fatal Attraction, created by Alexandra Cunningham and Kevin J. Hynes

on Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt

Fall 2024

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...

Fission or, Eclipse (with an introduction by Katie Geha)

The Space Between Things

Architecture and Song

Just Is

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

Microchimerism

on Soft Apocalypse by Leah Nieboer

on Pilgrims 2.0 by Lindsey Harding

on Dear Chrysanthemums: A Novel in Stories by Fiona Sze-Lorrain

on A Quitter’s Paradise by Elysha Chang

Delicacy, Divinity, and Desire in Five Recent Poetry Debuts (on Ae Hee Lee’s Asterism;...

on Trace Evidence by Charif Shanahan

on Fatal Attraction, created by Alexandra Cunningham and Kevin J. Hynes

on Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt

Fall 2024

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...