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Memorial Park: Revisiting Vietnam
Published Sept 2025 by Wendy's Subway and Art Metropole
Distributed by Asterism
Edited by Léon Dische Becker and designed by Bryce Wilner

Vietnam is dissected under Minh Nguyen’s sharp scalpel. Attending to the unresolved pathologies of the past and the detours of the present, Memorial Park sketches the multiple faces of a country in full mutation. In turn lucid, sensitive, acerbic, and full of humor, this collection of essays mixes personal narrative, and social, cultural, and historical critique with discerning observations to interrogate what remains of that old dream of a communism that is "too good to be true."
—Thuận

Launches
- New York: Printed Matter Art Book Fair, with Matthew Shen Goodman, 9/25
- New York: e-flux, with Kaleem Hawa, Yasmina Price, Catherine Quan Damman, and Mark Tseng-Putterman, 10/25
- Toronto: Art Metropole, with Tiana Reid, 10/25
- Oakland: Tamarack, with Tausif Nour, 10/25
- Ho Chi Minh City: Fulbright University, with Hoang Minh Vu, 11/25
- Ho Chi Minh City: Extraordinary Saigon, with Linh Le, 11/25
- Tokyo: Sawa Sawa, 12/25
- Seattle: Elliott Bay Book Company, with Charles Mudede, 3/26

Conversations
- with Tiana Reid, Momus podcast, Dec 2025
- with Innas Tsuroiya, TANK Magazine, Issue 106, March 2026
- with Terry Nguyen, vague blue substack, April 2026

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