[DEV] Minh Nguyen and Tiana Reid

Season 8

Tune in to a special bonus episode of Momus: The Podcast featuring a live recording from the launch of writer and critic Minh Nguyen’s new book Memorial Park: Revisiting Vietnam (Art Metropole & Wendy’s Subway, 2025). This event, co-presented by Art Metropole and Momus as part of the Momus Talks series, brought Nguyen into conversation with writer Tiana Reid to discuss writing about place, the personal as critical position, and how art criticism can open up broader cultural histories and experiences by “using art to write about something else.” More about the book from Wendy’s Subway: “Driven by a diasporic curiosity that seeks discovery over dwelling on loss, Memorial Park avoids nostalgic idealism or reflexive condemnation. Instead, Nguyen takes seriously the legacy of Vietnamese liberation by naming what it has become—and what it has not. What emerges is a complex picture of the country today and a reflection on how we inherit and reckon with radical histories that shape our world.”

Momus: The Podcast is edited by Jacob Irish, with production assistance from Rose Bouthillier and Chris Andrews.

Thanks to this episode’s sponsor Rabkin Foundation for supporting our work.

Thanks to Minh Nguyen and Tiana Reid for their contribution to this season.

Hosts: Sky Goodden and Lauren Wetmore

About the Guests

Tiana Reid is an assistant professor in the Department of English at York University. Her writing has appeared in Artforum, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The Paris Review, and in many other publications. She lives in Toronto.
Minh Nguyen is a writer and organizer of exhibitions and programs. She is a recipient of an Andy Warhol Arts Writers grant and a current visiting scholar at New York University’s A/P/A Institute