Tag: vietnamese american experience

A Departure From Reality | The New Yorker

My mother will not count as one of war’s casualties. But what do you call someone who loses her country, her parents, her peace of mind, because of war? —

Fiction: ‘The Committed’ Review

Sam Sacks reviews The Committed for The Wall Street Journal. The narrator of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s “The Committed” (Grove, 345 pages, $27) is a man without a country or a name—we know

Viet Thanh Nguyen: The art of memoir

Eliza Lomas checks in with Viet Thanh Nguyen a few times over the period of one year to see how he takes on the task of writing his memoir for

‘Write like you are the majority’

Viet Thanh Nguyen speaks with Stuart Carson for The Daily Trojan about Asian American anger, identity, and more. Asian Americans should be more angry.  Or at least that is what

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