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Vietnam-War

Film Review: “The Wake Up Call” — A New and Important Feature Documentary

Eric Neudel and Alison Gilkey found a tremendous subject for a documentary, and have told his tale with urgency and compassion.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Alison Gilkey, Boston International Film Festival, Eric Neudel, The Wake Up Call, Vietnam, Vietnam-War

Book Review: “The Mountains Sing” — The Power of Witnessing

This is a love letter, told honestly and poignantly, to the Vietnamese people, an homage to their dedication to remembrance, during and after a painful time.

By: Landry Harlan Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing, Vietnam-War

Best Books: Notable Volumes, For Better or Worse, in 2015

Our demanding critics supply lists of books that piqued their interest this of the year.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: and the First Age of Terror, Assaf Gavron, Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, Death by Water, Harvey Blume, Look Who's Back, Oliver Sacks, On the Move: A Life, Roberta Silman, the FBI, The Hilltop: A Novel, The Sympathizer, Thirteen Ways of Looking, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Vietnam-War

Book Review: “The Sympathizer” — The Vietnam War, Split in Two

In this powerful novel, Vietnamese-American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen shakes up stereotypical notions of the War in Vietnam.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Vietnam-War

Film Interview: Rory Kennedy defends “Last Days in Vietnam”

Not everybody loves the documentary Last Days in Vietnam. Director Rory Kennedy responds to some of the criticism.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Film, Interview Tagged: documentary, PBS, Peter Keough, Rory Kennedy, The Last Days in Vietnam, Vietnam-War

Short Fuse Interview: The Enigma of Vo Nguyen Giap — Military Mastermind, or “Marginalized Hero”?

iIf we lift the fog hovering over the War in Vietnam what we find a story nearly unknown in the West: far from devising and launching the Tet Offensive, Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap consistently and adamantly opposed it.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Featured, Interview Tagged: General Vo Nguyen Giap, Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam, Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Short Fuse, Vietnam-War

Book Review: “Hanoi’s War” — A Must-Read About the War in Vietnam

“Hanoi’s War” deserves far more attention than it has thus far received. It enriches our understanding of the War in Vietnam and by implication, subsequent American commitments, including the war in Afghanistan.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam, Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Short Fuse, Vietnam-War

Stage Review: “Streamers” and Imagining Violence

War is hell, as the Boston Phoenix theater critic Carolyn Clay would have it, but she doesn’t seem to realize that the inferno is a moving target. And it is the diminishing capacity of contemporary American theater to imagine violence and its effects that interests me most about the Huntington Theater Company’s current revival of […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: antiwar, David-Rabe, Huntington-Theatre-Company, Persona Non Grata, Streamers, Theater, Vietnam-War

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