This profile of writer Viet Thanh Nguyen was so moving. This part, in particular, blew me away: “Quoting Susan Sontag, he said victims want to feel their pain is unique, but that the challenge instead is to practice a ‘capacious grief’: the idea that one must transcend the particular pains and injustices of one’s own people to find empathy for those of …
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