Tag: american literature

Literary Hub | Viet Thanh Nguyen: Most American Literature is the Literature of Empire

April 11, 2025

“An imperial literature prefers the realism of showing the imperfect domesticity within an American empire.” By Viet Thanh Nguyen One way to understand the dilemma of contemporary American literature in the age

Novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen talks about sequel to Pulitzer Prize-winning novel

March 4, 2021

Viet Thanh Nguyen speaks with CBS This Morning about his new book, The Committed. Best-selling author Viet Thanh Nguyen talks to Jan Crawford about his new novel, out this week.

The Post-Trump Future of Literature

December 22, 2020

Viet Thanh Nguyen shares his thoughts on the changes of political literature in the coming era for this New York Times op-ed. Donald Trump is an anti-literary president. It’s clear