Madame Le Figaro reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Le Dévoué.(read more)
Ben Eastham reviews The Committed for ArtReview. In this sequel to the award-winning novel The Sympathizer, Nguyen’s anonymous narrator pursues a nihilistic life in France…(read more)
Roy Scranton reviews The Committed for The Yale Review. IN THE ESSAY “COMMITMENT,” first published in 1962, Theodor Adorno asserts, “It is not the office…(read more)
The Committed is reviewed by Marc Leepson for Vietnam Veterans of America.(read more)
Rayyan Al-Shawaf reviews The Committed for Pop Matters. While Viet Thanh Nguyen’s new novel, The Committed, is a stand-alone story, it also furthers the intellectual evolution and…(read more)
Jana Siciliano reviews The Committed for the Bookreporter. How does a writer follow up a debut novel that drew comparisons to Toni Morrison and Graham…(read more)
Ananya Bhattacharyya reviews The Committed for the Washington Independent Review of Books. One of the most interesting aspects of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Committed, sequel…(read more)
Piper French reviews The Committed for the Los Angeles Review of Books. PARIS IN THE EARLY 1980s: ’68 is in the rear-view and the soixante-huitards are…(read more)
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 novel,…(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)
Sara Webster reviews The Committed for the Chicago Review of Books. It’s easy to feel like you really know a character after reading a…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen in Festival America From September 21-25, Viet Thanh Nguyen will be participating in Festival America in Vincennes, France. This year, “Voices of America” will celebrate its 20th anniversary, and feature around 70 authors from North America in hundreds of lectures and panel discussions. Since 2002, this biannual festival has been dedicated to… (read more)
The jury of the California Book Awards has selected this year’s Gold and Silver Medal winners for its 2022 awards. One of the oldest and most distinguished literary award programs in the nation will be holding a virtual Awards ceremony on June 6, at 6 p.m for the Common Wealth Club. SILVER MEDALS FICTIONThe Committed, Viet Thanh… (read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen will be conferred a Honorary Degree, Doctor of Letters, Honoris Causa at the Commencement ceremony for Franklin & Marshall College. Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and numerous other awards. His most recent publication is the sequel to The Sympathizer, The Committed. His other books are a short story collection, The Refugees; Nothing… (read more)
