Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
The Cleaving brings together Vietnamese artists and writers from around the world in conversation about their craft and how their work has been shaped and received by mainstream culture and
Review by Eleanor J. Bader When Pulitzer Prize-winning writer-activist Viet Thanh Nguyen was asked to deliver Harvard’s annual Charles Eliot Norton lectures in 2023, he admits that he was intimidated. After all,
Critic Anna E. Clark examines Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer, dubbing it a thriller of ideas. Anne E. Clark Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer belongs to a prized little subgenre of fiction: the
Read more reviews for the HBO limited series, ‘The Sympathizer’ from The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, The Nation, and Salon The Atlantic The Key to Understanding HBO’s The Sympathizer Think of it
Norah Piehl reviews Simone, a children’s book by Viet Thanh Nguyen and illustrated by Minnie Phan for BookPage In Simone, Minnie Phan’s illustrations combine with Viet Thanh Nguyen’s prose to offer
“A powerful, multilayered depiction of an increasingly common situation.” Viet Thanh Nguyen writes a children’s book set to release in May 2024. Read below for early reviews from Kirkus Reviews,
Book review By Carol Memmott Just pages into Pulitzer Prize-winning Viet Thanh Nguyen’s new book, he writes about his parents being shot at their grocery store in San Jose, California. Nguyen
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen narrates his new memoir in an understated tone that is a blend of tenderness and survival humor. His fierce dedication to telling his parents’
Celia Mcgee writes a review of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s new memoir, A Man of Two Faces, for Airmail News I thought of Virginia Woolf when 92NY (formerly the 92nd Street
“Nguyen is an intriguing, inventive, and perceptive writer and his mesmerizing memoir takes hold of us . . .” How does one begin to make peace with an impossible past?
Nguyen’s ‘A Man of Two Faces’ tackles war, colonization, death and more, but still manages to be playful In a recent interview, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen spoke about
“I am a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two faces,” Viet Thanh Nguyen’s 2015 debut novel, “The Sympathizer,” begins. The unnamed narrator is a biracial, American-educated communist
Stéphane Bugat reviews Le Dévoué for Lé Télégramme.
Star Tribune features Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Committed in their holiday reading guide.
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 Greene, won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize