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… the stories they tell about themselves?  In Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War Viet Thanh Nguyen, a professor of American Studies at USC and a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, reflects … who view the dead and choose to remember them. This is a complex work.  Equal parts philosophical treatise, …

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