Every unhappy family, Tolstoy tells us in the first line of “Anna Karenina,” is unhappy in its own way. Maybe so. But as Bich Minh Nguyen suggests in her new novel “Pioneer Girl,” set in the western ...

Bich Minh Nguyen, associate professor of English and author of Purdue's first Common Reading Program selection "Stealing Buddha's Dinner," spoke to incoming Purdue students in two special convocations ...

The Michigan Humanities Council’s Great Michigan Read puts author Bich Minh Nguyen all over the state of Michigan. More than 170 partners so far — libraries, schools, counties, communities, book clubs ...

American literary genres are usually comfortably compartmentalized. Here we have immigrant stories. Over there, on the far side, we have Westerns. In the back, by the restroom, there may be a book or ...

Your donation today will help MinnPost continue to report on the news you need. Minnesota is where everything went wrong for Laura Ingalls Wilder’s family, says writer Bich Minh Nguyen. So that’s ...

Bich Minh Nguyen's debut novel, "Short Girls," tells the story of two Vietnamese American sisters, Van and Linny Luong, who grow up in the hinterlands of western Michigan. This sense of being on the ...

The immigrant's struggle to figure out what it means to be a true American is a familiar tale in American literature. Some find a path to acceptance in music or sports. Others find solace in hard work ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — When I heard last week that the Hostess cake company was going out of business, I decided to pay my respects: I went out and bought a 10-pack box of Twinkies. The immediate ...

Who hasn't fantasized that a family heirloom is actually a valuable piece of history that might be worth a fortune? It's the dream that made Antiques Roadshow a hit and has sent legions of ...