Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
A series of reviews and articles referring to Viet’s written works.
Pat C. Hoy II reviews Viet Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer for The Sewanee Review literary magazine. This review appeared in volume 123, Fall 2015. I have a
Jade Colbert reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer along with other debut novels for The Globe and Mail. The adage goes, “History is written by
The New York Times first reviewed The Sympathizer in April, when it came out. Now the NYT reviews the book again–a surprise, given that the
Nancy Pearl and Marcie Sillman discuss The Sympathizer on KUOW’s The Record. Listen to the podcast here or read the transcript below. Special, important, brilliant:
Dan DeLuca of the Philadelphia Inquirer reviews The Sympathizer. From Michael Herr’s Dispatches to Denis Johnson’s Tree of Smoke, from Oliver Stone’s Platoon to Bruce
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s debut novel, The Sympathizer, is reviewed by Viviane Crystal of the Historical Novel Society. 1968: Saigon falls to the enemy, and thousands
Karl Ashoka Britto reviews The Sympathizer for Public Books. The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen’s riveting debut novel, is a chronicle of war wrapped in a spy
Harvey Blume reviews The Sympathizer for The Arts Fuse. In this powerful novel about divisions, ideological and psychological, Vietnamese-American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen shakes up stereotypical
Amina Gautier reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer for The Rumpus. Replete with ambushes, betrayals, double agents, espionage, freedom fighters, refugees, and taboo sex,
The Sympathizer is reviewed in The New Yorker‘s ‘Briefly Noted’ section. This comic picaresque set in nineteen-seventies California is narrated by a Vietcong mole who
Sarah Bagby from KMUW, Wichita’s NPR Station, reviews The Sympathizer. Listen to the review here or read the transcript below. The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh
Bob Douglas of Critics At Large reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel, The Sympathizer. “This fantasy of Americans as rescuers has re-emerged in Rory Kennedy’s documentary
The Masters Review‘s Alisha Gorder reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s debut novel, The Sympathizer. With The Sympathizer, available now from Grove Press, debut author Viet Thanh
Megan Galbraith of Consequence Magazine reviews The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen. I’m not going to lie; The Sympathizer is a challenging read. It is also a
Lisa Locascio of Bookforum reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s debut novel The Sympathizer. From the grand ’Nam narratives of ’70s cinema to the works of creative-writing-syllabus
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