Could Asian-Americans Turn Orange County Blue?
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses Asian-American influence in Orange County for the 2018 midterm elections in this op-ed for New York Times. When I was…(read more)
Losing My Son to Reading
Viet Thanh Nguyen shares his feelings on the independence reading provides in relation to his young son in this opinion piece for The New York…(read more)
John Kelly’s Ancestors Wouldn’t Have Fit In Either
Viet Thanh Nguyen reflects on John Kelly’s words about undocumented immigrants coming from south of the border. Originally published by The New York Times. I…(read more)
A Novelist’s Exuberant Love Letter to a Mexican-American Clan
Viet Thanh Nguyen reviews Luis Alberto Urrea’s The House of Broken Angels for The New York Times. Luis Alberto Urrea’s sorrowful and funny new novel, “The…(read more)
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…(read more)
The Forgotten Victims of Agent Orange
This New York Times article, co-authored with Richard Hughes, confronts the lack of recognition and reparations for the Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange. Phan Thanh…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen: By the Book
The author, most recently, of “The Refugees” says the Star Wars stories are relevant to our age, “where most people identify with the rebels…(read more)
Trump Is a Great Storyteller. We Need to Be Better.
Viet published an op-ed in the New York Times about storytelling in the age of Trump. Here is the unedited, 1400-word version. The link…(read more)
The Hidden Scars All Refugees Carry
The following oped by Viet Thanh Nguyen was originally published by The New York Times. Many people have characterized my novel, “The Sympathizer,” as…(read more)
Reconsidering the Work of a Chinese Immigrant Writer of the 1930s
Viet Thanh Nguyen reviews Hua Hsu’s A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific. Originally posted as a New York Times Book Review…(read more)
