Exile wounds
Michael Freeman
Ocean Vuong’s poetry describes a world of memory, desire and violence.
Category: Vietnam
Eulogy for the street
Liam Moore
Poetry by Liam Moore
The singing dissident
Nguyen Qui Duc
How the former pop singer turned into a protest artist.
Vietnam’s book market
Pham Trang Nhung
Why Vietnam’s young writers are going online
Letters
Ron Steinman, Robert McCormick, Andrew Stewart
Readers respond to our review of Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s The Vietnam War
Above & below
Justin Mott
Vietnam as seen from above and below
Peace matters
Christopher Goscha
How war could have been avoided in Vietnam
The humaniser
Tillman Miller
In the wake of Donald Trump, writing about refugees has become a political act.
Winter 1954
Tran Dan
Tran Dan’s classic war novel, Crossroads and Lampposts, in English for the first time.
Intoxicated
Ross West
France extended its power in Vietnam by taking over the production of alcohol.
State rebels
Liam C Kelley
The Chinese outlaws recruited by the Vietnamese Nguyen Dynasty to fight against the French.
Milieu
David Payne
Nineteen young Vietnamese writers are showcased in a new collection of short stories.
On the street
Neil Moody
What is more important in street food – the food or the street?
Uncle Ho’s retreat
Michael Tatarski
Where Ho Chi Minh founded the Communist movement.
Poetry
Ocean Vuong, David Chandler
The latest in verse from around the Mekong region
The stubborn writer
Khai Q Nguyen
Few people outside of Vietnam have heard of Nguyen Binh Phuong
Borderlands
Vu Duc Liem
The true history of the Cambodian-Vietnamese border.
Images of war
Oslo Davis
Such A Lovely Little War brings the Vietnam War to new audiences.
Plus-que-parfait
Sander Smits
Sander Smits captures remnants and leftovers of Vietnam’s past
Café 129
Michael L. Gray
The two of us arrived at this tiny corner of Hanoi at the exact same time
Một nhà văn lì lợm
Khai Q. Nguyen
Trò chuyện với Nguyễn Bình Phương
The great leap
Peter Zinoman
Goscha’s Vietnam puts Vietnamese at the centre of their own history.
Agent Monsanto
Mick Grant
Fifty years after the spraying of Monsanto’s Agent Orange in Vietnam.
Refugee pain
Rupert Winchester
The Refugee is bold, bright and beautiful.
Standing up to China
Nicholas Chapman
Friction is nothing new in Vietnam–China relations
Smuggling the bodacious
Hans van Leeuwen
We sit looking at the screen. “PM lauds communist youth” looks back at us
It ain’t pho
Connla Stokes
My father’s improvised experiments with Vietnamese cuisine were declared a success
Damming the Mekong
Michael Buckley
Vietnam lies at the wrong end of the Mekong River.
Out of the box
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Vietnamese-American literature fulfills the function of ethnic writing
The Viet bride
Trang Ha
I would forever remember Dan’s silence. Silently loving me. Silent before my family’s insults and dissuasion.
Fish need water
Thaveeporn Vasavakul
It will take fifty years to restore the marine ecosystem of Vietnam’s central coast
Sok sa bai
Nguyen Qui Duc
A trip down the Mekong River becomes surreal
More than just memory
Patrick Deer
Viet Thanh Nguyen tests the limits of fiction
Thirty years of change
Khac Giang Nguyen
The legacy of Vietnam’s doi moi
The real thing
Connla Stokes
The undefinable, addictive nature of Vietnamese food
Carry on empire
Simon Winchester
All empires inevitably fade, including France’s in Southeast Asia
Annamite journeys
Wayne McCallum
Where peoples, plants and animals are found nowhere else
Sweet humdrum days
Connla Stokes
Hanoi at the dawn of the new millennium
Marginal Countries
Mario Del Pero
A long apology for Kissinger’s crimes