Television has taught us a lot about Asian history lately, hasn’t it? FX’s Shōgunsent audiences back in time to 17th-century Japan. Netflix’s 3 Body Problembegins during China’s Cultural Revolution.

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“I am a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two faces.” So begins Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Sympathizer,” which, when released in 2015, was hailed for its humorous, biting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Park Chan-wook read “The Sympathizer” for the first time, maybe six or seven years ago, he felt like he was watching ...

HBO’s The Sympathizer and the genre-bending tale of espionage The adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel is a study of migration—between identities and countries and also between different historical ...

In the opening seconds of HBO‘s adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s bestselling novel The Sympathizer, the pay cable giant’s familiar logo is transformed so that, instead of evoking a television set ...

Hoa Xuande is the unnamed central character in the HBO limited series “The Sympathizer,” which premieres April 14. (Hopper Stone/Warner Bros. Discovery/AP) Review by Lili Loofbourow Despite its status ...

HBO’s The Sympathizer Episode 3 is now streaming on Crave and Max, and the limited series is nearly halfway complete. Life is getting increasingly more difficult for the Captain (Xoa Huande), and the ...

Warning: Spoilers ahead for HBO’s The Sympathizer Episode 6, “The Oriental Mode of Destruction.” Despite already recovering from being caught in an explosion blast, the Captain (Hoa Xuande) faces his ...

What is more psychically exhausting, in fiction and I suppose in life, than the story of the double agent, the mole, the traitor embedded among those he’s working against? It’s a dramatic theme we ...