Who recommends it
- Andrew GelmanInterview
But, to be honest, I do almost all my reading in English, and I recently finished The Committed, the gangster-novel sequel to the spy novel The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen. Both books have so much over-the-top praise in their blurbs that I was prepared to be contrarian and hate them, but they’re excellent. The…
- M.T. AndersonInterview
So many! A School For Fools by Sasha Sokolov, The Night Ocean by Paul La Farge, The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen, In Parentheses by David Jones, The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin, The Little Girls by Elizabeth Bowen… Many more.
- Lisa SeeInterview
- Phil RosenzweigInterview
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen. In fact, it’s the best book I’ve read in the last several years. For an American of my generation, raised during the Vietnam War, it’s irresistible.
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