Fiction Pick of the Week: "Daughter's Guide to Lavender"
A refugee's daughter examines identity and spaces.
A refugee's daughter examines identity and spaces.
Sophia Terazawa The Offing Sep 2019 10min Permalink
When her brother embraced Orthodox Judaism, the author began to question her own reality and went to Israel to find some answers.
Ellen Willis Rolling Stone Apr 1977 1h20min Permalink
After the blockbuster success of Kong: Skull Island, director Jordan Vogt-Roberts fled Hollywood to live the expat dream life in Vietnam. Then, one night at a Saigon club, he was brutally beaten by a mysterious mob of gangsters. Who were these monsters? Soon, he began directing something entirely different—an international hunt for the men who nearly killed him.
Max Marshall GQ Jul 2018 20min Permalink
To make sense of the Special Counsel, you have to revisit some of the bloodiest battles of Vietnam.
Garrett M. Graff Wired May 2018 25min Permalink
On the floating villages of the Mekong River and the ethnic Vietnamese who have populated them for generations and are still considered “foreigners” by their Cambodian neighbors.
Ben Mauk New York Times Magazine Mar 2018 30min Permalink
Half a century ago, an American commando vanished in the jungles of Laos. In 2008, he reappeared in Vietnam, reportedly alive and well. But nothing was what it seemed.
Matthew Shaer The Atavist Magazine Feb 2017 35min Permalink
“It’s more than soup.”
Andrea Nguyen Lucky Peach May 2016 10min Permalink
An attempt to make sense of the dog meat industry in Vietnam, an unregulated maze of black market slaughterhouses, home restaurants, and thieves who are often murdered in the open when caught stealing the family pet.
Calvin Godfrey Roads & Kingdoms Feb 2016 15min Permalink
On Pham Xuan An, Time’s Saigon correspondent during the Vietnam War, who led a double life as an intelligence agent for Ho Chi Minh.
Thomas A. Bass New Yorker May 2005 40min Permalink
He came home from Vietnam, wrote the novel that became Full Metal Jacket, was nominated for an Oscar and riding high. Then he got thrown in jail for stockpiling stolen library books, started drinking, cut off his friends and fled to a remote Greek island. He never made it back.
Grover Lewis LA Weekly Jun 1993 40min Permalink
Revealing the murder of 109 Vietnamese civilians during a 1968 search-and-destroy mission on a rumored Viet Gong stronghold, often referred to in military circles as Pinkville, actually the village of My Lai.
Seymour Hersh The St. Louis Post-Dispatch Nov 1969 20min Permalink
A trip to interview former South Vietnamese premiere Ky on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the reunification of Vietnam ends with government surveillance, partying, and confusion.