Coming through
Louis Raymond
A profile of Franco-Vietnamese artist Bao Vuong
Category: Vietnam
The writer retires
Peter Zinoman
How Nguyen Huy Thiep changed contemporary Vietnamese literature
Bard of the Viets
Thomas A. Bass
A review of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Committed
Behind the blue fence
Connla Stokes
A quarantine, and food, in Ho Chi Minh City
Boxed-in
Lam Le
Time slips away in a Hanoi bookstore
Thiep and I
Peter Zinoman
Nguyen Huy Thiep, 1950-2021
Nguyen Huy Thiep
Thomas A. Bass
The writer who redefined Vietnamese literature
Bittersweet
Lam Le
Thanks to the pandemic, Tet in Vietnam won’t be quite the same this year
Kissinger and Ellsberg in Vietnam
Thomas A. Bass
How a war hawk became the biggest whistleblower of his time
Dateline Vietnam
Martin Stuart-Fox
Three female journalists shaped how the Vietnam War was understood
Tiếng đập cánh từ đâu
Nhã Thuyên
‘Where are the wings beating from’
A bright light
Elizabeth Becker
A journalism era closes with the death of Neil Sheehan, author of A Bright Shining Lie
Gutting the press
Thomas A. Bass
Vietnam imprisons more journalists
Vietnam’s pathfinder
K.W. Taylor
Vietnamese studies loses a pioneer
Cat and mouse
Thomas A. Bass
Pham Doan Trang goes to prison
Home quarantine
Khai Q. Nguyen
Memories are let loose in a Ho Chi Minh City quarantine facility
The peace plane
Connla Stokes
Remembering Bradford Edwards and his peace plane
Home truths
Chath pierSath
Looking for love and home in Vietnam
Writing home
Michael Freeman
From the American diaspora to homeland Vietnam
White clouds flying
Bao Ninh
A short story by the author of The Sorrow of War
Personal history
Louis Raymond
Writing history and searching for identity make bad company
Luck out
David Payne
Stories of chance and consequences inside and outside today’s Vietnam
Salt & Pepper
Connla Stokes
The film Spike Lee should have made
Rise and shine
Peter Yeoh
Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods rolls out the racial cliches
Peanuts of war
Michael Uhl
In between battles, I tended the garden
An inconvenient truth
David J.H. Blake
The overlooked role of irrigation in the destruction of the Mekong River
Go green in Hanoi
Ben Tran
On the beaten track in Southeast Asia’s most polluted city
Nguyen Ky and the singer
Pham Duy Khiem
A short story by Pham Duy Khiem, translated by Harry Aveling
Dear TC
Andrew Lam
A short story by Andrew Lam
Marginal
Paul Arthur
Nha Thuyen’s essays on Vietnamese poetry
War myths
Alexander Wells
A new Australian film misses the mark
Tithes that bind
Nick Freeman
Sending money back to Vietnam
Play it again
Michael Freeman
Ocean Vuong’s debut novel
Misconceived
Anthony Morreale
Penguin stumbles over a Vietnamese classic
Place and time
Louis Raymond
The art of Nguyen Manh Hung
Between two worlds
Michael Howard
Pham Duy Khiem embodied two cultures in conflict
Too convenient for some
Ollie Arci
Grabbing a takeaway in Hanoi
Ancestors
Thuy Vy
Inspired by the portraits of the deceased
Striking resistance
Joe Buckley
Garment workers and labour organisation in Vietnam
Shifting sands
Tim Pelling
Sand, once inexhaustible, is disappearing faster than ever