Vuong's new novel, The Emperor of Gladness, is the first he's written, from start to finish, since his mother died in 2019.

Vuong's new novel, The Emperor of Gladness, is the first he's written, from start to finish, since his mother died in 2019.

Now, with the release of his second novel, “The Emperor of Gladness,” Vuong raised a whole town from the realm of memory. The ...

Condensing her formative years in a poetry collection titled, “the morphing years”, K Roselyn Miachieo made her debut as an ...

Fiction, biography, and journalism come together in this June reading list of 8 books offering intensity, heart, and fresh ...

Snippets of poetry have provided writer Irene Latham enough wisdom to fill a book. She shares several in this week's column.

As physical media continues its comeback, The National rounds up the best releases across film, music, art and more. Abu ...

Ocean Vuong's debut novel On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous placed him in an elite club of American writers. He teaches at NYU and is the recipient... With new novel, Ocean Vuong says he wants to ...

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 ...

In a moving new narrative, Ocean Vuong redefines ... released May 13, marks Vuong’s first formal prose effort. “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous,” a poetry-laden epistolary novel told ...

Ocean Vuong’s new novel follows Hai as ... And while it’s told in prose, Vuong’s penchant for poetry shows in patches of colorful, visceral language strewn with metaphors that run through ...