Ocean Vuong

Future Library opens secret archive of unseen texts in Oslo
David Mitchell, Sjón, Tsitsi Dangarembga and Karl Ove Knausgård join inaugural celebration of project housing works that will remain unseen until 2114
Rosie Goldsmith
14, Jun, 2022 @2:51 PM

Ocean Vuong: ‘I was addicted to everything you could crush into a white powder’
The poet and novelist’s latest collection is his first book to be published since the death of his mother. He talks about loss, addiction and performing literary drag
Lisa Allardice
02, Apr, 2022 @8:00 AM

‘What the hell is an HSC exam?’ Poet Ocean Vuong pokes fun at perplexed Australian students
Renowned author shares Instagram messages from year 12 students who complained about his ‘confusing’ text in English exam
Janine Israel
11, Nov, 2021 @1:27 AM

Men have had the vulnerability bashed out of them. We need to learn how to love | Rick Morton
Rick Morton learned early that weakness was ‘gay’, and that only women asked for help. In this edited extract from his new book, he writes about the trap of masculinity – and how to be free of it
Rick Morton
16, Mar, 2021 @4:30 PM

'You'll have to die to get these texts': Ocean Vuong’s next manuscript to be unveiled in 2114
Vietnamese-American author and poet joins Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell and Karl Ove Knausgård to lock away work in Norway to be published in 94 years’ time
Sian Cain
19, Aug, 2020 @8:53 AM

$625,000 'genius grants' go to Ocean Vuong and six other writers
The MacArthur Foundation honours, which encourage winners to ‘continue to innovate’, also won by Valeria Luiselli, Lynda Berry and Emily Wilson
Alison Flood
25, Sep, 2019 @2:04 PM

US writers recall their migrant journeys in protest at asylum seekers' treatment
Khaled Hosseini, Ocean Vuong and Neil Gaiman among leading authors to sign a letter to the US Congress, urging action to remedy ‘atrocious conditions’
Alison Flood
30, Jul, 2019 @11:48 AM

Summer reading: booksellers recommend…
Staff at four award-winning independent bookshops tell us what they’ll be packing for their holidays
14, Jul, 2019 @7:00 AM

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong review – portrait of the artist as a teenager
A Vietnamese-American poet’s debut mines his extraordinary family story with passion and beauty
Tessa Hadley
14, Jun, 2019 @6:29 AM

Ocean Vuong: ‘As a child I would ask: What’s napalm?’
How did a Vietnamese refugee come to write what many are hailing as the great American novel?
Emma Brockes
09, Jun, 2019 @7:00 AM

Édouard Louis: ‘We didn’t reject literature – it rejected us’
The enfant terrible of French writing talks about the violence perpetrated by the political system on the working class
Kim Willsher
08, Jun, 2019 @5:00 PM

Fatima Bhutto: ‘David Foster Wallace on David Lynch is pretty funny’
The novelist on admiring Maggie Nelson and Rachel Kushner, and being irritated by William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury
Fatima Bhutto
26, Apr, 2019 @8:59 AM
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