From Thương Nhớ Mười Hai to Miếng Ngon Hà Nội, Vũ Bằng’s way of lacing Hanoian features with melancholic reminiscence always ...

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Every January 1 in the Books department, we like to make an extra toast for a concurrent holiday: Public Domain Day.

Literature is full of reminders that long odds can sometimes be surmounted.

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Any book can spur us toward self-improvement. So can a song, a poem or a movie scene. And so we will change.