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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

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

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

By Gabrielle Bellot | April 8, 2025

Viet Thanh Nguyen on Remembering and Forgetting

Viet Thanh Nguyen on Remembering and Forgetting

From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | June 10, 2024

In Defense of Food Memory in Immigrant Fiction

In Defense of Food Memory in Immigrant Fiction

Jessica Yu on the Power of an Oft-Maligned Trope

By Jessica Zhan Mei Yu | April 1, 2024

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“We must all work harder than ever to safeguard freedom of thought in our institutions.”

By Literary Hub | November 3, 2023

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

By Gabrielle Bellot | October 3, 2023

One great short story to read today: Viet Thanh Nguyen's "Black-Eyed Women."

By Emily Temple | May 8, 2023

The Vietnam War, 50 Years On: A Reading List

By George Black | April 28, 2023

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: (Free!) Syllabi from Some of Our Favorite Writers

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

Featuring Victoria Chang, Julia May Jonas, Sam Lipsyte, and More

By Literary Hub | September 6, 2022

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

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

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

Also Discussed: Sex Scenes, Reincarnation, and Publishing’s Exoticization Problem

By Literary Hub | July 7, 2022

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By Walker Caplan | July 16, 2021

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

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

By Katie Yee | May 27, 2021

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

By Walker Caplan | May 24, 2021

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