Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
By Mike Budd The seven-part television series The Sympathizer premiered on HBO on April 14, 2024 to good reviews, with The New York Times praising it as “not just a good story,” but
Many people might dismiss what writers and storytellers do as useless and harmless, but the evidence for our usefulness and power is substantial, especially in this age of growing global
In an interview with Al Jazeera marking Saigon’s 50th anniversary, Viet Thanh Nguyen—USC professor and Pulitzer winner for The Sympathizer—recalled arriving in America as a 1975 child refugee. The Vietnamese-American
“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
This trenchant compendium of lectures by Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Nguyen (A Man of Two Faces) expounds on “what it means to write and read from the position of an other.”
Mari Uyehara interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen—The Vietnamese-American writer’s leap to the mainstream comes at a moment that demands his anti-colonialist perspective for The Nation Like Nguyen’s other books, this memoir
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’
Selective empathy prevents us from making connections. What about the American bombing of Cambodia? Viet Thanh Nguyen argues that asking “What about…?” in this context does not deflect justice but
Francesca Angelini reviews The Committed for The Sunday Times. Born in Vietnam and brought up in the US, the academic Viet Thanh Nguyen took 20 years to publish his first
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, he had survived a psychically obliterating
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 confessional novel. But like people, characters
Elissa Greenwald reviews The Committed for the New York Journal of Books. “Readers eagerly await more from a writer whose finger is on the pulse of the 21st century. His
Viet Thanh Nguyen is interviewed by Jeffrey Fleishman on his thoughts on celebrity culture, capitalism, and American imperialism. Originally published by the Los Angeles Times. A sense of the other seeps