Tag: The New Republic

The New Republic | The Sympathizer Is a Spy Thriller of Rare Sophistication

May 13, 2024

Park Chan-wook’s new miniseries on HBO takes American imperialism to task—Phillip Macias writes a review of HBO’s adaptation of ‘The Sympathizer’ by Viet Thanh Nguyen for The New Republic Critics

Image credits to Getty Images. USC professor and writer Viet Thanh Nguyen has been named a 2017 MacArthur fellow.

Longreads: An Interview with Macarthur ‘Genius’ Viet Thanh Nguyen on Longreads

October 17, 2017

2017 MacArthur fellow Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses questions of justice, diversity in literature, and empathy across cultures in an interview with Catherine Cusick. Interview originally published by Longreads. Viet Thanh