Paul Beatty In Conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen
In fall 2017, the Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute hosted Beatty and Nguyen for an onstage conversation for Believer Magazine. A double agent and a sellout. A French Vietnamese man concealed to nearly everyone around him, and a black American who is a stranger in his own hometown. These are the narrators of The […]
The finest fiction of 2017 were gifts of light and grace amid war and displacement
Olivia Ho names Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees as one of the ten best works of fiction in 2017 for The Straits Times. War and displacement marked many of this year’s finest fiction offerings as the world continues to be wracked by the global migration crisis and the threat of terrorism. Many novels took bold […]
