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, ...

Writer Viet Thanh Nguyen spent five years bringing “The Sympathizer” to the screen, but it wasn’t until a recent cruise down the Hollywood Freeway that he realized what a big deal the HBO adaptation ...

The Vietnamese-born, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen has long written on themes of war, refugees and exile. He covers those directly and personally in a new memoir about his own family ...

Viet Thanh Nguyen never set out to write a memoir. The medium requires not only telling one's own story, but the stories of others who may not want them shared, like his own family. Nguyen, an author ...

The Vietnamese American writer’s leap to the mainstream comes at a moment that demands his anti-colonialist perspective. Viet Thanh Nguyen was groaning. He couldn’t help it. He had already sat through ...

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 ...