Why I Teach
Opinion | Why I Teach – The New York Times Being a good teacher is hard. So is maintaining democracy. Our political leaders should…(read more)
Close the Curtain on ‘Miss Saigon’
Opinion | Close the Curtain on ‘Miss Saigon’ – The New York Times Why is a musical that perpetuates a Western fantasy of Asians…(read more)
America, Say My Name
Viet Thanh Nguyen writes about his experiences with a Vietnamese name in America in this op-ed for New York Times. LOS ANGELES — What’s…(read more)
Why We Struggle to Say ‘I Love You’
Viet Thanh Nguyen writes about the Asian-American family dynamic and struggles in this New York Times Opinions article. For many Asian-Americans, the phrase belongs…(read more)
Victims of War, and Now Victims of the Trump Administration
Viet Thanh Nguyen and Eric Tang discuss the deportation of Vietnamese refugees under the Trump administration in this Opinion piece for the New York…(read more)
Wesley Yang and the Search for Asian-American Visibility
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses Wesley Yang’s collection of essays, The Souls of Yellow Folk, for the New York Times Book Review. THE SOULS OF…(read more)
Asian-Americans Need More Movies, Even Mediocre Ones
Viet Thanh Nguyen writes an Op-Ed for New York Times about narrative plenitude and Asian-American representation in Hollywood. If you are Asian-American, you have…(read more)
What I’ve learned from my 4-year-old
Originally published in the New York Times. LOS ANGELES — A bathroom at 4:45 a.m. is quiet. I try to wake at this time, three…(read more)
The Awl: An Interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen
An interview with Bryan Washington regarding refugee literature and American politics. Interview originally published on The Awl. This conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen took place a…(read more)
MacArthur Foundation Names 2017 ‘Genius’ Grant Winners
Originally written for the New York Times, the following is an excerpt about Viet Thanh Nguyen from Jennifer Schuessler’s New York Times article on the…(read more)
