Vuong’s second foray into fiction represents a stylistic departure from his debut, more traditional in its structure and ...

He’s a writer who mines his own history to look deeply at broader currents of working-class American life. In his new novel, ...

In a moving new narrative, Ocean Vuong redefines what it means to write an American novel. The follow-up to his first prose ...

Hai is 19 and suicidal. Grazina is 81 and living alone with dementia. So when she strikes a deal to house him so they can ...

Ocean Vuong's sweeping new novel centers on a depressed 19-year-old college dropout who becomes the caregiver to a widow with ...

A revealing memoir from one of Australia's most beloved authors and an exciting debut about a literary fraudster in the ...

Hai is 19 and suicidal. Grazina is 81 and living alone with dementia. So when she strikes a deal to house him so they can ...

Ocean Vuong’s new novel, “The Emperor of Gladness” is moving on a number of levels. It has characters you think about when you’re away from them. The writing is exemplary. Vuong has written a big, ...

Ocean Vuong first made his name as a poet. His debut full-length collection, Night Sky with Exit Wounds (2016), was widely acclaimed, earning him the TS Eliot Prize, of which he is the youngest ever ...

Vuong's s gifts of writerly restraint also ... BJ wore cut with the strawberry Starbursts Russia was always sucking on. The Emperor of Gladness is a truly great novel about work — still an ...

Book Review: Ocean Vuong Takes Existentialism to Deeply Intimate Level in 'The Emperor of Gladness' Hai is 19 and suicidal. Grazina is 81 and living alone with dementia. So when she strikes a deal ...

Ocean Vuong's sweeping new novel centers on a depressed 19-year-old college dropout who becomes the caregiver to a widow with dementia. 'The Emperor of Gladness' is a beautiful novel about hard ...