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