Hai is 19 and suicidal. Grazina is 81 and living alone with dementia. She strikes a deal to house him in exchange for his ...

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’s new novel, “The Emperor of Gladness” is moving on a number of levels. It has characters you think about when you’re away from them. The writing is exemplary. Vuong has written a big, ...

The book Vuong is trying to make sense of is The Emperor of Gladness, which, to be fair to its author, is sprawling. It ...

A title like The Emperor of Gladness conjures images of grandeur, or indeed of a utopian state, writes Conor Hanratty.

Oprah Winfrey’s latest book club pick is a new novel from Ocean Vuong, one of the country’s most admired young writers ...

Ocean Vuong's sweeping new novel centers on a depressed 19-year-old college dropout who becomes the caregiver to a widow with ...

Oprah Winfrey's new pick for her book club is a buzzy new novel from a poet. Here's why she chose "The Emperor of Gladness" ...

Vuong recounts immigrant life and the love, labor and loneliness that living on the fringes of American society often entails ...

Author Ocean Vuong has been breaking boundaries in the literary world with his words and style, something many say is unlike ...

Author and poet Ocean Vuong discusses being Oprah’s book club pick of the month and the inspiration behind his new book "The Emperor of Gladness." ...

Oprah Winfrey selected "The Emperor of Gladness" by New York Times best-selling author Ocean Vuong as her latest book club pick. Watch the author, Ocean Vuong, read an excerpt from his novel that ...