Karin Tanabe sets her new novel, “A Hundred Suns,” in French-occupied Indochina and aims to examine the ugly implications of French colonialism. The novel, Tanabe’s fifth, opens in November ...

In 1954, U.S. Air Force planes began flying French troops to Indochina to reinforce Dien Bien Phu. The city later fell to communist Viet Minh forces. In 1960, Brasilia was inaugurated as Brazil's ...