The Sympathizer Author Viet Thanh Nguyen on What It Means to Be an Outsider

The Sympathizer Author Viet Thanh Nguyen on What It Means to Be an Outsider

In his new collection, the Pulitzer Prize winner explores the artist’s role in the political discourse.

In December 2023, the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Viet Thanh Nguyen, had something he thought he was saying and, fortunately, an unusual platform of gravity on which to say it. Earlier that year, he was exploited to give the Norton Lectures, a nearly a century-long Harvard series in which an artist [...]