In numerous little ways, Viet Thanh Nguyen sparks familiarity through his fiction, sending little tendrils that feel familiar out to readers. All the while he tells a story about life and death, ...

“All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory.” Thus opens Viet Thanh Nguyen’s 2016 nonfiction book Nothing Ever Dies, which surveys the quieter, later ...

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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen reflects on the first 100 days of the second Trump administration, the president’s chaotic trade war, detentions and deportations of pro-Palestinian ...

We mark 50 years since the end of the U.S. war on Vietnam with the acclaimed Vietnamese American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen. On April 30, 1975, North Vietnamese troops took control of the South ...

In a short time, Viet Thanh Nguyen has encircled the American literary consciousness: first with his mind-bending 2015 novel “The Sympathizer,” then last year’s cultural history “Nothing Ever Dies” ...

At the end of “The Sympathizer,” Viet Thanh Nguyen’s 2015 debut novel, the nameless narrator vows to survive. This so-called sympathizer, a Vietnamese communist spy, has come to the end of his ...

The pop diva is one of several to hold court at Madison Square Garden this month, and the West Indian American Day Parade and other celebrations return. By Erik Piepenburg In Edel Rodriguez’s “The ...

“The immigrant has always been an ambivalent figure in the United States,” writer Viet Thanh Nguyen told the Los Angeles Times last year. “The immigrant has always served as a source of rejuvenation ...

Viet Thanh Nguyen had no intention of writing a sequel to “The Sympathizer,” his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a French-Vietnamese undercover agent working for Communist forces during the end of ...