“Speak of the Dead, Speak of Viet Nam: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Minority Discourse” was originally published in CR: The Centennial Review, volume 6,…(read more)
“Seeing Double: The Films of R. Hong-An Truong” was originally published in Postmodern Culture, volume 17, issue no. 1 (September 2006). For those whose image…(read more)
“The Remasculinization of Chinese America: Race, Violence and the Novel” was originally published in American Literary History, volume 12, issue no. 1 & 2, pages…(read more)
“Representing Reconciliation: Le Ly Hayslip and the Victimized Body” was originally published in Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique, volume 5, issue no. 2, pages 605…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Displaced is listed on Entropy’s Best of 2018: Nonfiction Books and Star Tribune’s Holiday Books List. The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives Edited by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Harry N. Abrams) Viet Nguyen, called “one of our great chroniclers of displacement” (Joyce Carol Oates,The New Yorker), brings together writers originally from Mexico,… (read more)
Emily Temple lists Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer in LitHub‘s ten books that have defined the 2010s. Some books are flashes in the pan, read for entertainment and then left on a bus seat for the next lucky person to pick up and enjoy, forgotten by most after their season has passed. Others stick around,… (read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen reads from The Refugees and speaks on the need for marginalized communities’ narrative voices at Cornell University. Refugee and Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen spoke on the need for more marginalized communities’ narrative voices in literature during a reading in Goldwin Smith Hall on Thursday. The reading was part of the… (read more)
