25 Modern Classics Thatโll Actually Wreck You (In the Best Way)
25 modern classic books that belong on every reading list, from gut-punch literary fiction to genre-bending thrillers. Cormac McCarthy, Zadie Smith, Gillian Flynn, and more. These aren't dusty assignments, they're the books people are still talking about. Here's your no-BS guide to what's actually worth reading.
๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐: "๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ณ๐๐ด๐ฒ๐ฒ๐" ๐ฏ๐ ๐ฉ๐ถ๐ฒ๐ ๐ง๐ต๐ฎ๐ป๐ต ๐ก๐ด๐๐๐ฒ๐ป -
Nguyen's short stories are, each individually, a situation of struggle in identity across generations, gender, economies, traditions, and circumstance; absorbing and revealing. Taken together, however, they begin to take on an overtone of artificiality or contrivance, a quibble.
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๐ช๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐โ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ป๐ด: "๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ณ๐๐ด๐ฒ๐ฒ๐" ๐ฏ๐ ๐ฉ๐ถ๐ฒ๐ ๐ง๐ต๐ฎ๐ป๐ต ๐ก๐ด๐๐๐ฒ๐ป -
A collection of short stories of immigration, assimilation, and family. Apparently written across 20 years, it will be interesting to see, too, how Nguyen's viewpoints and style shifted over that time!
#books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #tbr #tbrpile #tbrlist #quotes #reading #vietthanhnguyen #therefugees #vietnam #vietnameseliterature #shortstories
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/9/viet_thanh_nguyen
#Chipocalypse (tasteless orange #fascist chimp!!!) : #VietThanhNguyen on the rotting #fascist orange chimp's invocation of #ApocalypseNow, as well as the #Genocide in #Gaza
Just days after President Trump threatened to wage war on the city of Chicago, ICE launched what it called โOperation Midway Blitz,โ and President Trump claimed the city was โabout to find out why itโs called the Department of WARโ โ a reference to his order to rename the Department of Defense. On Monday, the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to resume indiscriminate immigration raids in Los Angeles. โDonald Trump is targeting Los Angeles and California because this is a city and a state in which multiculturalism and ethnic diversity have worked,โ says Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author. He also discusses Trumpโs use of the term โChipocalypse Now,โ a reference to the epic Vietnam War film Apocalypse Now, and discusses how his Vietnamese heritage led him to support Palestinian liberation. โI identified strongly with the plight of Palestinians, because one of the first things that one of the Israeli ministers said after October 7 was that they were fighting human animals โ by which he meant Palestinians โ and that idea of reducing other people to being less than human is one of the key narrative acts that justifies genocide,โ he says.
WGA Toss Out Park Chan-wook & Don McKellar For Writing On HBOโs โThe Sympathizerโ During 2023 Strike
#News #Politics #DonMcKellar #Emmys #Gersh #HBO #Labor #ParkChanwook #RobertDowneyJr #SAGAFTRA #TheSympathizer #VietThanhNguyen #WGA #WGAStrike #WGAWesst #WGAW
๐ง๐๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ถ๐น๐ฒ: ๐๐๐ป๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฑ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ -
A few of the titles I'll be looking at this month! (And some more surprises this month, too!)
#books #literature #bookreviews #bookworm #tbrpile #tbrlist #derekwalcott #omeros #vietthanhnguyen #therefugees #akwaekeemezi #pet #marlonjames #blackleopardredwolf #simonjimenez #spearcutsthroughwater #matthewsmith #hardears #thomasmann #deathinvenice
๐ช๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐'๐บ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ป๐ด: "๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐๐บ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐๐ต๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ" ๐ฏ๐ ๐ฉ๐ถ๐ฒ๐ ๐ง๐ต๐ฎ๐ป๐ต ๐ก๐ด๐๐๐ฒ๐ป -
Since I recently finished his short story collection ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ง๐ถ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ด, I thought it a good time to grab his biggest title to date about post-Vietnam War subterfuge and conscience.
#vietthanhnguyen #thesympathizer #vietnam #thriller #historicalfiction #immigration
The Journal does podcasts, you know. My colleague Logan recently landed an interview with Pulitzer-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen.
https://abqjournalcast.com/work-in-progress-conversations-with-creators/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOU6g7fA8dQ&pp=ygUNZGVtb2NyYWN5IG5vdw%3D%3D
#VietThanhNguyen on 50 Years After #VietNam, Trump's #UglyAmerican Politics and More
๐ง๐๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ถ๐น๐ฒ: ๐ ๐ฎ๐ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ -
A few of the books I'm reading this month!
#books #literature #bookreviews #bookworm #tbrpile #tbrlist #tbr #jewishamericanheritagemonth #asianpacificamericanheritagemonth #mentalhealthawarenessmonth #elifshafak #thereareriversinthesky #vietthanhnguyen #thesympathizer #geneluenyang #supermansmashestheklan #jennyxie #eyelevel #saulbellow #IsaacBashevisSinger #zlatehthegoat #lmmontgomery #anneofgreengables
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