Arts of War
‘The Sympathizer’ on HBO
April 13, 2024
If you're a fan of Viet Thanh Nguyen's Vietnam War-heavy 2016 novel, The Sympathizer, it'd be worth getting a subscription to HBO if you don't have one to watch the sprawling new seven-part limited series…
Author Query: Jayne Mansfield in Vietnam
March 27, 2024
Actor and author Erik Liberman is writing a book about the actress Jayne Mansfield that will include material about her visit to entertain the troops in Vietnam in 1967. If you were in-country when Mansfield toured…
‘Full Medal Modine’ Photo Exhibit at the Museum of the Marine Corps
February 27, 2024
An exhibit of photographs taken by the actor Matthew Modine during the filming of Stanley Kubrick's classic 1987 Vietnam War film "Full Metal Jacket" opens March 2 at the National Museum of the Marine Corps…
People’s Choice: Vote for the Cover You Like for an Upcoming Vietnam War Novel
February 10, 2024
Koehler Books, which will be publishing what promises to be a worthy Vietnam War novel, Mike McLaughlin’s The War You’ve Always Wanted, in the fall, is doing something unique—and pretty cool—in choosing the book’s front…
Harry Bosch: Alive and Well(ish) in Michael Connelly’s new novel, ‘Resurrection Walk’
December 17, 2023
On the evening of December 5, Hachette Book Group sponsored a live session over the video platform, Crowdcast with best-selling crime fiction author Michael Connelly, in conversation with his editor, Asya Muchnick. The subject was…
‘America Fantastica’: Tim O’Brien’s First Novel in 20 Years
November 21, 2023
Tim O’Brien’s sprawling, brash new novel has nothing whatsoever to do with the Vietnam War or Vietnam War veterans. In America Fantastica (Mariner Books, 464 pp., $32), O’Brien spins out a careening, Pynchon-esque tale set…
Award-Winning Doc ‘Just Like Me’ on PBS on Veterans Day
November 10, 2023
VVA member Ron Osgood’s Emmy-winning documentary, Just Like Me: The Vietnam War/The American War, a film that weaves together the stories of Americans and Vietnamese who took part in the war, will be broadcast by many PBS…
Author Query: In Search of Vietnam Veterans’ Post-War Stories
October 4, 2023
David Griffiths, a retired journalist who served with the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment in Vietnam, is working on a book, Welcome Home Home, Brother, in which he will examine Vietnam War veterans' experiences after coming…
Latest AUSA Graphic Novel: The Story of VN War Medal of Honor Recipient Bruce P. Crandall
July 22, 2023
On February 26, 2007, President George W. Bush presented the Medal of Honor award to former Army Maj. Bruce P. Crandall, a pilot who flew for the 229th Assault Helicopter Company in the Vietnam War. …
John McDonald, 1948 – 2023
July 5, 2023
John McDonald, a Canadian-born American Vietnam War veteran who wrote a series of popular novels about the war and its aftermath, died June 20 of bone cancer at age 74. After serving for two years…