Viet Thanh Nguyen

Call it what it is: an attempted ethnic cleansing of the United States.

In presidential precedents, Nixon went down over Watergate, not the genocidal carpet bombing of Cambodia.

Killing people we disagree with is wrong in every way, whether it’s Melissa Hortman or Charlie Kirk. This is especially true in a country awash with guns and run by fascists looking to amplify their already militarized policies. No thoughts and prayers. Down with fascism and up with gun control.

As a teacher, I've seen the highs and lows for my students. Nothing in my graduate education prepared me for how to deal with the lows--mental illness, homelessness, sexual assault being the most extreme.

The US is basically waging war against Cuba with a blockade…for no good reason except enmity.

This is one of the reasons why I thought Park Chan-wook was perfect as co-showrunner for THE SYMPATHIZER (especially if you remember Wim Wenders' less than inspiring comments at the Berlinale about art and politics as needing to be separate, after he was asked about his opinion about Gaza).

Two very funny young comedians, Will Pepper (he's really Vietnamese--you'll have to tune in to find out how he got his name) and Danny Plom join Philip Nguyen and me to wrap up season 6 of ÁCCENTED! www.eventbrite.com/e/accented-c...

Israel flattened an entire building because it suspected one Hamas spotter was on the roof (no evidence offered). The consequences: massacring more than 132 members of Abu Naser family. Some 8000 bodies may still be under the apocalyptic wreckage of Gaza.

I'm glad I refused to learn how to use Canvas. I ignored it in my big lecture class and none of my students cared. www.latimes.com/california/s...

If I had an Israeli character in one of my novels celebrate his birthday with a cake with a noose, I’d be called antisemitic.

Looting Was Part of Every Israeli War. What's New Is the Total Indifference - Headline says it all. The most moral army in the world loots and pillages.

See you in Riverside, California, next Friday May 3 at 3PM for UC Riverside's Writers Week. Did you know I did my freshman year at UC Riverside? writersweek.ucr.edu writersweek.ucr.edu/schedule2026

The German chancellor said this today. I said this on March 8, but with a little more judgment. The Germans can’t call the Americans (or the Israelis) terrorists, because they’re all still on the same side. The German chancellor is just sad the Americans are so dumb about their war.