NOTHING EVER DIES
Sara Camaiora reviews Nothing Ever Dies by Viet Thanh Nguyen for Mangialibri. “Se l’anima dell’America morirà avvelenata, sul referto dell’autopsia dovrà esserci scritto Vietnam”. Sono parole di Martin Luther King, fanno riflettere sul significato più profondo di quel conflitto sanguinoso e doloroso che si è svolto tra Vietnam, Cambogia, Laos, con innumerevoli morti da ogni […]
“REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING”: AN INTERVIEW WITH VIET THANH NGUYEN
Karl Ashoka Britto interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen about his novels and personal experiences as a refugee for Public Books. Since the 2015 publication of his Pulitzer Prize–winning debut novel The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen has emerged as one of the literary world’s leading public intellectuals. At a time of rising xenophobia and anti-refugee sentiment in the […]
Niente muore mai. Il Vietnam e la memoria della guerra
The Italian edition of Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War by Viet Thanh Nguyen is now available on Amazon. «Se l’anima dell’America morirà avvelenata, sul referto dell’autopsia dovrà esserci scritto “Vietnam”». Non c’è forse spiegazione più concisa di questa frase di Martin Luther King per comprendere che cosa abbia significato per gli […]
Modern Language Association Publishes Forum on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Work
The Modern Language Association publishes a forum of articles on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s books in the PMLA March 2018 issue. Articles Included: Slips and Slides by Sarah Chihaya Vietnam, the Movie: Part Deux by Sylvia Shin Huey Chong Un-American: Refugees and the Vietnam War by Yogiya Goyal The Lasting Lure of the Asian Mystery […]
The René Wellek Prize Citations 2017
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War co-wins the 2017 Rene Wellek Prize with Jeffrey Cohen’s Stone. The Rene Wellek Prize is annually awarded, respectively, to the best book overall in comparative literature. Article originally published by ACLA. Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War is a clearly and […]
Viet Thanh Nguyen elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and USC professor Viet Thanh Nguyen joins Barack Obama, Sonia Sotomayor, and Tom Hanks in being elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences’ 238th class. Originally published by USC Dornsife. In 2016, Nguyen won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with his novel The Sympathizer, which takes an unconventional and critical look at differing […]
Paperback Row
Joumana Khatib adds Nothing Ever Dies by Viet Thanh Nguyen on Paperback Row’s 2017 book list for The New York Times. NOTHING EVER DIES: Vietnam and the Memory of War, by Viet Thanh Nguyen. (Harvard, $17.95.) “All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory,” Nguyen notes in this study of the war […]
In Tunnels where Ghosts Dwell: War, Memory, and Identity
Peter Admirand reviews Nothing Ever Dies for newbooks.asia. Viet Thanh Nguyen. 2016. Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press ISBN 9780674663042 ‘Pack Your Bags.’ The Sergeant slapped the back of my father-in-law, a young marine at the time in the 1960s. ‘Pack your bags,’ the Sergeant grunted. The […]
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Ghosts
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses the Vietnam War, the writing life, and the archaeology of memory with Josephine Livingstone for New Republic. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author discusses the Vietnam War, the writing life, and the archaeology of memory. “All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory.” Thus opens […]
Diplomatic History Reviews Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
Christian G. Appy reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War in Volume 41 of Diplomatic History. Combining cultural analysis, philosophical reflection, political manifesto, travel narrative, and autobiography, Nothing Ever Dies is a rangy, original, and provocative meditation on the ethics of war memory. Though its arguments implicate war in general, the book’s substance […]
In Viet Thanh Nguyen’s ‘The Refugees,’ wistfulness is an anthem of displacement
Karen Long reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees. Originally published by The Los Angeles Times. In a short time, Viet Thanh Nguyen has encircled the American literary consciousness: first with his mind-bending 2015 novel “The Sympathizer,” then last year’s cultural history “Nothing Ever Dies” and now with eight short stories entitled “The Refugees.” Nguyen, the […]
THE RUMPUS INTERVIEW WITH VIET THANH NGUYEN
Beverly Parayno interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen about refugees, the Vietnamese community, and Nguyen’s books in this article for Rumpus. When I first learned that Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen and I shared the same hometown of San Jose, California, and that we both grew up there in the 1970s and ‘80s, I knew I […]
Vietnam War Revisited by Author Viet Thanh Nguyen
Peter Pierce reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s three latest works, Nothing Ever Dies, The Sympathizer, and The Refugees, for The Australian. Last year, not long after the publication of his Pulitzer prize-winning novel The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen released a nonfiction analysis, impassioned yet forensic, of ‘‘Vietnam and the memory of war’’. This book is titled […]
Author Viet Thanh Nguyen, who appears in Santa Ana on Tuesday, discusses his journey as a writer
This is Part 2 of Peter Larsen’s interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen for the Orange County Register. You can read Part 1 here. Even as a refugee child some 40 years ago, Viet Thanh Nguyen remembers loving the books he found everywhere in his first American hometown of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. “Some of my earliest memories […]
Viet Thanh Nguyen on Writers on Writing
Viet Thanh Nguyen talks about The Refugees and his books with Barbara DeMarco-Barrett in this interview for KUCI. Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of The Sympathizer, is my guest for the entire hour. He talks about his new book of short stories, The Refugees, and his nonfiction book–the bookend to The Sympathizer—Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War. […]
