Nguyen has just released a new book of essays, originally delivered as lectures, that explore otherness and belonging in U.S. history. “I think otherness is a universal condition,” says Nguyen.

Everyone needs otherness to live, and the desire for diversity cannot be stifled for long – sooner or later it resurfaces. Symbolically America preserves this wish. Among such extremes ...

Viet Thanh Nguyen came to the U.S. as a refugee from Vietnam when he was four years old. Growing up in San Jose, California, Nguyen remembers the moment he understood he was Asian-American.

Shah Tazrian Ashrafi doesn't shy away from telling it like it is. His debut short story collection, The Hippo Girl and Other Stories, holds up a mirror to a society that judges and ridicules those ...

If you somehow missed the rise of multi-award-winning Black British actress and singer Cynthia Erivo, the musical screen adaptation of the Tony Award-winning musical Wicked has undoubtedly placed ...