The latest from Major Books.
Asymptote· 16 July 2026
Asymptote interviews Nguyễn Bình Phương on mysticism, Vietnamese literary history, and the fantastic as a methodology for survival in The Young Die Old, translated by Khải Q. Nguyễn.
Read at Asymptote →Saigoneer· 12 April 2026
Saigoneer revisits Vũ Trọng Phụng's once-banned 1936 novel in its first English translation.
Read at Saigoneer →Resonate Voices· 17 June 2026
How ‘Echoing Whispers’ Is Challenging the Way the West Reads Vietnamese Folk Tales
Read at Resonate Voices →Vietcetera· 12 July 2025
Vietcetera meets Major Books co-founders Kim Trần and Pascal Nguyễn on their mission to bring Vietnamese literature to global readers.
Read at Vietcetera →Saigoneer· 25 August 2025
Saigoneer on Vũ Đình Giang's landmark queer novel, translated by Khải Q. Nguyễn.
Read at Saigoneer →diaCRITICS· 6 January 2026
diaCRITICS reviews Parallels, Vietnam's first queer novel in English translation; review by Thảo Tô.
Read at diaCRITICS →The Bookseller· 31 October 2025
The Bookseller reports Major Books' acquisition of the illustrated Treasury of Vietnamese Folk Tales.
Read at The Bookseller →Strange Horizons· 22 June 2026
Rachel Cordasco reviews The Young Die Old for Strange Horizons — a novel that "slides back and forth along the continuum of fantasy and realism," its supernatural haze rooted in Vietnamese folklore...
Read at Strange Horizons →Saigoneer· 17 October 2024
Saigoneer on Nguyễn Ngọc Tư's vignette-driven novel of the Mekong Delta.
Read at Saigoneer →ArtsHub· 22 April 2025
ArtsHub profiles Major Books and its mission to bring Vietnamese literature to English-speaking readers.
Read at ArtsHub →The Third Wheel· 30 June 2026
For their first issue, The Exophonic Translator, The Third Wheel talks to Major Books about treating artistic risk as a commercial proposition.
Read at The Third Wheel →Asymptote· 29 June 2026
Asymptote names Nguyễn Bình Phương's phantasmagoric novel its June Book Club pick, translated by Khải Q. Nguyễn.
Read at Asymptote →Asymptote· 6 November 2024
Asymptote's essay-review of Water: A Chronicle by Nguyễn Ngọc Tư.
Read at Asymptote →The Vietnamese Podcast· 22 June 2026
Why Vietnamese Folklore Is Secretly A Gory Horror Story?
Read at The Vietnamese Podcast →Tuổi Trẻ News· 2 December 2024
Tuổi Trẻ News profiles Major Books and its mission to bring Vietnamese literature to readers around the world.
Read at Tuổi Trẻ News →Asian Review of Books· 23 October 2024
A close reading of Nguyễn Ngọc Tư's Mekong-set novel in Nguyễn An Lý's translation, reviewed by Thảo Tô.
Read at Asian Review of Books →Story Feast Magazine· 23 June 2026
Story Feast Magazine on the Echoing Whispers exhibition at the Museum of the Home, where Jeet Zdũng's luminous paintings bring the Treasury of Vietnamese Folk Tales to life.
Read at Story Feast Magazine →Foreword Reviews· 1 June 2026
Foreword Reviews on Nguyễn Bình Phương's magical-realist village novel, translated by Khải Q. Nguyễn.
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