The Saturday Paper: The Refugees
CR of Australia’s Saturday Paper reviews The Refugees, Viet Thanh Nguyen’s short story collection. In this sophisticated collection by Vietnamese-American Viet Thanh Nguyen, whose…(read more)
Reviews
The Refugees Review: Insight Into Belonging Without Losing Identity
Eileen Battersby of the Irish Times reviews The Refugees. A Vietnamese woman living again with her now widowed mother recalls the terror of being…(read more)
Vietnam War Revisited by Author Viet Thanh Nguyen
Peter Pierce reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s three latest works, Nothing Ever Dies, The Sympathizer, and The Refugees, for The Australian. Last year, not long…(read more)
Star Tribune: The Refugees
Tom Zelman reviews The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen for the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Uprooted populations, filling enclaves in First World cities or subsisting…(read more)
Post-War Americans
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s new collection of short stories, The Refugees, paints subtle portraits of the many shades of ‘refugee’. The following review by Jason…(read more)
The Refugees: Rough Crossings
A collection of short stories delicately captures the traumas and triumphs of the migrant experience. The following review by Fatima Bhutto originally appeared in…(read more)
Stellar nonfiction chosen by the National Book Critics Circle
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s “Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War” nominated as a nonfiction finalist in the 2016 National Book Critics Circle.…(read more)
SF Chronicle Reviews The Refugees
Rayyan Al-Shawaf of the San Francisco Chronicle reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s new short story collection, The Refugees. If you’re still unconvinced that “nothing ever…(read more)
Monocle Arts Review: The Refugees
John Mitchinson and Matt Alagiah discuss Viet Thanh Nguyen’s short story collection, The Refugees, along with new releases from Clover Stroud and Jacob Polley…(read more)
Publishers Weekly Gives The Refugees Starred Review
Nat Sobel of Publishers Weekly reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s new short story collection, The Refugees. Each searing tale in Nguyen’s follow-up to the Pulitzer-winning…(read more)
The New Yorker: Refugees in America
The Pulitzer Prize-winning Viet Thanh Nguyen tells stories about people poised between their devastated homeland and their affluent adopted country. The following review was…(read more)
Amid Era of Trumpism, Immigrant Tales of People not Politics
Anthony Domestico, a correspondent of the Boston Globe, reviews The Refugees. We’re in a moment of political turmoil. Whatever Trumpism is, it has tapped…(read more)
‘The Refugees’ Review: Pulitzer Prize Winner Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Timely Story Collection
Marion Winik reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s short story collection, The Refugees, for Newsday. The mainstreaming of xenophobia that occurred during the last election cycle is…(read more)
Pulitzer-winner Viet Thanh Nguyen Makes ‘The Refugees’ Human
May-lee Chai reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees for Dallas News. At a time when paranoia about refugees and migrants has reached a new…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s ‘The Refugees’ Couldn’t Come at a Better Time
Megan Mayhew Bergman of the Washington Post reviews The Refugees, Viet Thanh Nguyen’s new short story collection. Viet Thanh Nguyen’s new collection of stories,…(read more)
Review: “Nothing Ever Dies” By Viet Thanh Nguyen
Bill Schwab reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s “Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War”. Originally published by The Missourian. “All wars are fought…(read more)
