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The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen book cover

Book Review – The Committed

G. Robert Frazier reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Committed for BookPage. The much-anticipated sequel to Viet Thanh Nguyen’s 2016 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Sympathizer, The Committed invites debate through its complex portrayal of

The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen UK cover

Daily Mail Reviews: The Committed

Sara Lawrence reviews The Committed for Daily Mail. This is a sequel to the Vietnamese-American author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2015 novel The Sympathiser, but it also works as a standalone. It

Week 1: The State of Asian America Today

Rise APA held a conversation featuring Viet Thanh Nguyen about the state of Asian America in the face of COVID-19. Why we feel this conversation is necessary, and an overview

Ferguson: From a Millimeter to a Mile

Michael Eric Dyson’s “Where Do We Go after Ferguson?” made diaCRITICS editor Viet Thanh Nguyen think about how hard it is to change attitudes about race.  [If you’re living in America, then