Kim Thúy on how ’refugee literature’ differs from immigrant literature
The Governor General’s Award–winning author of the novels ’Ru’, ’Mãn’ and now ’Vi’ is still unpacking her own experience: ’In a refugee camp, you live outside of time.’
Vietnam
In Vietnam, forgetting the ’American war’
Viet Thanh Nguyen writes that survivors are most likely to recall the fate of women and children
A real-life unicorn: Book review
The author joins an epic expedition through Laos in search of the saola, an animal that is ‘as rare as the rarest thing on Earth’
Mãn alive: A novel of food, fulfillment and family in Vietnam
Packed with haunting, poetic detail, Kim Thúy’s ’Mãn’ is a beautiful read
Mai Thi Ngoc Tran Cashion, 1974-2014
A child of the Vietnam War, she survived Operation Babylift. In a search for inner peace she was a nanny, Buddhist and dog walker.
Wondering what JFK would have done on Vietnam: Galbraith’s impression
What could have happened if the president lived
Forty years later in a village in Vietnam
Canadian doc ’Unclaimed’, premiering this week at Hot Docs, finds a lost American soldier with almost no memory of his past
Why Vietnam is becoming America’s new BFF
The former enemies are big trading partners. Could military co-operation be next?
In conversation: Oliver Stone
On Mexican drug cartels, movie violence and whether America is getting more pot-positive
Cambodia: enjoying China’s long shadow
As China’s growth raises wages, Cambodians get more business