Viet Thanh Nguyen

I, a historian of the Vietnam War, have watched the Turning Point treatment. I have some notes.

In contemporary publishing, novels fixated on the past rather than the present have garnered the most attention and prestige.

Celebrations of multiculturalism obscure the country’s settler colonial history—and the role that immigrants play in perpetuating it.

A post-9/11 veteran novelist explores a post-Vietnam literary soiree gone bad, and finds timeless lessons about a contentious and still-evolving genre.