"Punishing assorted others quells empathy and dissent, for we do not want to be targeted ourselves," writes Viet Thanh Nguyễn.
Viet Thanh Nguyễn
Nguyễn was born in Vietnam and raised in America. His novel The Sympathizer won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as five other awards. His latest book is To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other
Novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen on why Amanda Gorman's inaugural poem captured the democratic spirit of America and spoke to shared public spaces
Asian Americans are caught between the perception that we are inevitably foreign and the temptation that we can be allied with white people, Viet Thanh Nguyen writes.
Poet Ocean Vuong is a daring writer in his compelling and emotional first novel, 'On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous.'
Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1967 speech “Beyond Vietnam” is incredibly insightful regarding how it speaks to issues we face today.
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'The Refugees' author Viet Thanh Nguyen writes on what it means to love America, and his experience growing up as an immigrant from Vietnam
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...
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