Painting by subtraction
James Jennings
The evolution and appeal of Vietnamese lacquer paintings
Tag: Vietnam
Looking for Bao Ninh
Michael Karnavas
In 1994, Michael Karnavas went in search of the great Vietnamese writer
Bao Ninh’s wars
John Fuller
An interview with the author of The Sorrow of War
Wounded queen
Michael Freeman
Hieu Minh Nguyen anatomises the wounds and scars of his identity
Kafka in Saigon
Connla Stokes
A bookshop in Ho Chi Minh City
Street artistry
John Ramsden
Bùi Xuân Phái, perhaps the artist of his generation, struggled for acceptance and paint in Vietnam.
Eating passionately
Liam R. Greenwell
A tribute to the late travel writer, chef and broadcaster Anthony Bourdain.
Good old bad days
Michael L. Gray
How Hanoi’s cartoonists fought hardship with humour
Line and content
Craig Thomas
The art of pushing political boundaries but never stepping over them in Vietnam.
The blogger
John Fuller
Blogger Nguyen Chi Tuyen says he’s ready to sacrifice his life for freedom.
Lost in translation
Liam Kelley
Ben Kiernan’s history of Vietnam gets lost in translation
Fall for Saigon
Connla Stokes
Can Ho Chi Minh City survive the drive to transform it into little Singapore?
Yellow music
Cuong Pham
Pre-’75 Saigon music is popular among young Vietnamese.
Heroes of Tet
Michael Dedrick
Fifty years ago, these soldiers launched the most audacious military campaigns of the Vietnam War.
America’s amnesia
Thomas A. Bass
Why the US can’t make an honest film about the war it lost
Formosakill
Calvin Godfrey
When Formosa couldn’t build its steel plant in Taiwan, it turned to Vietnam.
Exile wounds
Michael Freeman
Ocean Vuong’s poetry describes a world of memory, desire and violence.
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
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.
Uncle Ho’s retreat
Michael Tatarski
Where Ho Chi Minh founded the Communist movement.
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.
Poetry
Krysada Panusith Phounsiri, Maung Philar, Khai Q Nguyen
The latest in verse from around the Mekong region.
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
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
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