The Committed is reviewed by Marc Leepson for Vietnam Veterans of America.
Ron Charles reviews The Committed for the Independent. In 2015, a professor at the University of Southern California published his first novel, called The…(read more)
The Committed is featured as one of Publisher’s Weekly‘s most anticipated books.(read more)
Francesca Angelini reviews The Committed for The Sunday Times. Born in Vietnam and brought up in the US, the academic Viet Thanh Nguyen took…(read more)
Duncan White reviews The Committed for The Daily Telegraph. When Viet Thanh Nguyen published his debut novel, The Sympathizer, in 2015, it was so…(read more)
Kate Tuttle reviews The Committed for The Boston Globe. After Viet Thanh Nguyen won the Pulitzer Prize for his 2015 novel, “The Sympathizer,” his…(read more)
Laura Miller reviews The Committed for Slate. The last time readers saw the nameless narrator of The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen’s 2015 Pulitzer Prize–winning…(read more)
Vince Schleitwiler reviews The Committed for the International Examiner. When your debut conquers the world, how do you top it? Few writers have experienced…(read more)
Steven W. Beattie reviews The Committed for the Toronto Star. Duality is a pervasive motif in “The Committed.” This is apparent from the first…(read more)
Sam Sacks reviews The Committed for The Wall Street Journal. The narrator of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s “The Committed” (Grove, 345 pages, $27) is a man without…(read more)
Noah Berlatsky reviews The Committed for Foreign Policy. “I am someone who believes that you do need revolutions when there’s injustice,” Viet Thanh Nguyen…(read more)
Randy Boyagoda writes a review about The Committed for Financial Times. With the release of his brainy, brawny second novel, The Committed, Viet ThanhNguyen…(read more)
The Committed is featured in the Publishers’ Weekly newsletter. ‘The Committed’ by Viet Thanh Nguyen The long-awaited sequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘The Sympathizer,’…(read more)
The Committed is featured on CrimeReads‘ list of novels to read. Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Committed In Viet Thanh Nguyen’s highly anticipated followup to…(read more)
Aminatta Forna reviews The Committed for The Guardian. “We were the unwanted, the unneeded and the unseen, invisible to all but ourselves.” And with…(read more)
Thúy Đinh reviews The Committed for NPR. With smoke-and-mirrors panache, The Committed — Viet Thanh Nguyen’s sequel to The Sympathizer — continues the travails of our Eurasian Ulysses,…(read more)
The Phi Beta Kappa Society has named Viet Thanh Nguyen as the recipient of its Sidney Hook Memorial Award. Phi Beta Kappa presented the award to Nguyen on August 3rd at the 46th Triennial Council of the Society. The award, established in 1991 in memory of the distinguished American philosopher and Phi Beta Kappa member Sidney Hook (1902–1989), recognizes national distinction… (read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen will be giving a keynote lecture for the Language and Migration symposium at Princeton University. Language is a vital, but underexplored, factor in the lives of migrants, immigrants and refugees. It has a direct impact on the experiences and choices of individuals displaced by war, terror, or natural disasters and the decisions made by agents who provide… (read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen hosts ACCENTEDirl for DVAN with featuring authors from various Southeast Asian backgrounds. The Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN) is collaborating with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American (APA) Center to host ACCENTEDiRL: Dialogues in Diaspora. This Spring 2021, ACCENTEDiRL will feature authors, artists, poets, and cultural producers across the Southeast Asian diaspora in a series… (read more)
