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Pop Matters | ‘The Sympathizer’ Fractures Identity into a Knockout Kaleidoscopic Tale

April 30, 2024

The mini-series adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s kaleidoscopic tale The Sympathizer is a knockout account of colonialism, war, and (the loss of) identity. Ana Yorke writes for Pop Matters What if all

Pop Matters | VIET THANH NGUYEN NEARLY CLEAVES HIS PROTAGONIST IN TWO IN ‘THE COMMITTED’

April 9, 2021

Rayyan Al-Shawaf reviews The Committed for Pop Matters. While Viet Thanh Nguyen’s new novel, The Committed, is a stand-alone story, it also furthers the intellectual evolution and emotional disintegration of a character from