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Viet Thanh Nguyen: Most American Literature is the Literature of Empire

Viet Thanh Nguyen: Most American Literature is the Literature of Empire

“An imperial literature prefers the realism of showing the imperfect domesticity within an American empire.”

By Viet Thanh Nguyen | April 11, 2025

Viet Thanh Nguyen on Finding the Foreign in Ourselves and Those Most Like Us

Viet Thanh Nguyen on Finding the Foreign in Ourselves and Those Most Like Us

“That is the joy of otherness, an awareness that even seeing oneself face to face means that the very notion of otherness is present.”

By Viet Thanh Nguyen | April 10, 2025

Viet Thanh Nguyen on the Cover of His New Memoir

Viet Thanh Nguyen on the Cover of His New Memoir

“It often feels like a cover designer I have not met has captured some dimension of the book I have not been aware.”

By Viet Thanh Nguyen | April 4, 2023

Back to School for Everyone: Writers and the World with Viet Thanh Nguyen

Back to School for Everyone: Writers and the World with Viet Thanh Nguyen

On Writing as Commitment to Both Art and Politics

By Viet Thanh Nguyen | September 6, 2022

Viet Thanh Nguyen on What David Wong Louie Meant to Him at 20

Viet Thanh Nguyen on What David Wong Louie Meant to Him at 20

Reading Pangs of Love and Discovering Asian American Literary Voices

By Viet Thanh Nguyen | June 21, 2019

Viet Thanh Nguyen: How Not to Bore Your Audience at a Reading

Viet Thanh Nguyen: How Not to Bore Your Audience at a Reading

Channel Obama. Perform. Drink if You Must.

By Viet Thanh Nguyen | April 9, 2019

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