Ocean Vuong was just two when his family fled post-war Vietnam and came to the US. He only learned to read and write English ...

Ocean Vuong’s dark, poetic novel takes us on a journey through time, loss, trauma, and the little acts of kindness that help ...

Three weeks after my mother died, my brother moved in with me. In our grief I emerged as a kind of father.

Author Ocean Vuong talks about his new novel, The Emperor of Gladness. It centers on the unlikely friendship between a 19-year-old college dropout and an 82-year-old with dementia.

Seen in a soft light, Ocean Vuong’s life looks like a modern American fairy tale. In 1990, he and his mother came to this country as refugees from Vietnam. They landed in small-town Connecticut ...

We’re only halfway through 2025, but there have already been plenty of standout books published this year. There’s been ...

Ocean Vuong’s longtime partner is a former lawyer he met during a brief eight-week stint at business school. Learn all about his partner here.

In Ocean Vuong’s melancholy ‘Emperor of Gladness,’ happiness is elusive and the American Dream out of reach Ocean Vuong’s poetic second novel centers on immigrants struggling to get by.

He’s a writer who mines his own history to look deeply at broader currents of working-class American life. In his new novel, Ocean Vuong crafts a narrative that weaves together themes of grief ...

The cover of “The Emperor of Gladness” by Ocean Vuong shows a silhouette with sunlight behind it. The novel was released May 13 and follows Vuong’s acclaimed 2019 book “On Earth We’re ...

A college dropout becomes caretaker to a Lithuanian widow in Ocean Vuong’s florid new novel, which seeks to find the dignity in dead-end jobs.