Viet Thanh Nguyen

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
On The Self

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

By Viet Thanh Nguyen  April 10, 2025
New Books Tuesdays

Buffy! Viet Thanh Nguyen! Andrea Long Chu! 23 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot  April 8, 2025
Write-minded

Viet Thanh Nguyen on Remembering and Forgetting

By Memoir Nation   June 10, 2024
Food Writing

In Defense of Food Memory in Immigrant Fiction

By Jessica Zhan Mei Yu  April 1, 2024
Open Letters

Now is a Time to Speak:
An Open Letter to the 92nd Street Y

By Literary Hub  November 3, 2023
New Books Tuesdays

A whopping twenty-seven new tomes for your October reading pleasure.

By Gabrielle Bellot  October 3, 2023
The Hub

One great short story to read today: Viet Thanh Nguyen’s “Black-Eyed Women.”

By Emily Temple  May 8, 2023
Vietnam

The Vietnam War, 50 Years On: A Reading List

By George Black  April 28, 2023
Book Covers

Viet Thanh Nguyen on the Cover of His New Memoir

By Viet Thanh Nguyen  April 4, 2023
Syllabi

Back to School for Everyone: (Free!) Syllabi from Some of Our Favorite Writers

By Literary Hub  September 6, 2022
Syllabi

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

By Viet Thanh Nguyen  September 6, 2022
Identity

Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood and Viet Thanh Nguyen on Writing from the Vietnamese Diaspora

By Literary Hub  July 7, 2022
The Hub

The Sympathizer adaptation will star Robert Downey Jr. as all the villains.

By Walker Caplan  July 16, 2021
The Hub

34 books for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (and all months).

By Katie Yee  May 27, 2021
The Hub

A brand new imprint will focus on publishing diasporic Vietnamese literature in English.

By Walker Caplan  May 24, 2021
First Draft

Wrestling with Derrida’s Concept of Forgiving the Unforgivable

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   May 3, 2021
The Hub

What to read next based on your favorite… way to make eggs.

By Katie Yee  April 8, 2021
The Hub

Park Chan-wook is directing a TV adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer.

By Walker Caplan  April 7, 2021
Best Reviewed Books of the Month

The Best Reviewed Books
of the Month

By Book Marks  March 31, 2021
The Hub

Listen to a new song inspired by Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer.

By Emily Temple  March 16, 2021
The Hub

Here are the best reviewed books of the week.

By Book Marks  March 5, 2021
The Hub

17 new books to look forward to.

By Katie Yee  March 2, 2021
Astrology or Whatever

The Astrology Book Club: What to Read This Month, Based on Your Sign

By Emily Temple  March 1, 2021
The Hub

Viet Thanh Nguyen has just become the first Asian-American member of the Pulitzer Board.

By Corinne Segal  September 8, 2020
Movies

Viet Thanh Nguyen is live-tweeting Spike Lee’s new movie today.

By Aaron Robertson  June 16, 2020
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