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Topic: Viet Thanh Nguyen

Director Park Chan-wook with star Hua Xuande on the set of "The Sympathizer" (HBO)

Park Chan-wook talks Sympathizer, Oldboy

Melanie McFarland
The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Grove Press)

Colonial fetishizing in "The Committed"

April Yee