Vietnam
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Spotlight: Matt Huynh’s The Boat
The Boat is an interactive graphic novel based on the acclaimed story by Nam Le. The project unites hand drawn artwork, animation, text, sound, and archive to explore this important moment in history.
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Tokyo’s Morioka Shoten stocks just one book. Shop owner Yoshiyuki Morioka selects a single book each week to sell in his austere boutique. A new non-profit bookstore in Istanbul, Turkey seeks to focus on Arab culture and the refugee experience as…
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The Rumpus Interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen
Author Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses his debut novel, The Sympathizer, new ways of looking at the Vietnam War, and how to blend important ideas with entertainment.
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The Secrets of the Past
Over at the New Yorker, a journalist returns to what was almost the last town he ever reported on.
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The Post-Apocalyptic Present
For a smart writer, a ravaged future world also offers something like a perfect literary playground, a cleared field where everything from language to human psychology to social convention can be reconsidered and reframed, critiqued or reimagined. The Millions reviews…
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The Viet Arcane by Jack Hirschman
Patrick James Dunagan reviews Jack Hirschman’s The Viet Arcane today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Long History of “Matterhorn”
“But for more than thirty years, the manuscript languished in literary purgatory, while the author struggled to find an agent—not to mention a publisher—willing to take it on. Published in April as a collaboration between the California-based small press El…
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A History of Violence
In After the Fire a Small Still Voice, love is a difficult, vulnerable salvation—its troubled characters aren’t sure it’s worth the risk.