Viet Thanh Nguyen

Viet Thanh Nguyen was born in Vietnam and raised in America. His novel [tempo-ecommerce src="https://www.amazon.com/Sympathizer-Novel-Viet-Thanh-Nguyen/dp/1543618022" title="The Sympathizer" context="body"] won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as five other awards. His new novel The Committed is out March 3.

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What Amanda Gorman Teaches Us About Our Shared America

Amanda Gorman moved me deeply, as she did many others, with her inaugural poem “The Hill We Climb.” When I found out that she was nurtured at least partly by the Los Angeles Public Library,...

By Viet Thanh Nguyen

Asian Americans Are Still Caught in the Trap of the ‘Model Minority’ Stereotype. And It Creates Inequality for All

Asian Americans have embraced a country that passed a law to keep them out. The real American dream would unite all of us in justice and economic equality

By Viet Thanh Nguyen

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Is a Daring Tale of Queer Love and Pain

Ocean Vuong read from his poetry at the Los Angeles public library two years ago. I was onstage with him as his interviewer, and what struck me about Vuong was his marvelous combination of vulnerability...

By Viet Thanh Nguyen

The MLK Speech We Need Today Is Not the One We Remember Most

Viet Thanh Nguyen on Dr. King's 1967 speech ‘Beyond Vietnam’

By Viet Thanh Nguyen

I Love America. That’s Why I Have to Tell the Truth About It

What it means to love my country, no matter how it feels about me

By Viet Thanh Nguyen

Viet Thanh Nguyen: The Immigrant's Fate Is Everyone's

I am an immigrant. I am also a human being, an American, a Vietnamese, an Asian and a refugee. I do not have to choose among these identities, despite those who would insist that I...

By Viet Thanh Nguyen
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