The Quiet American is one of the best movies you’ll never see. That’s not to accuse you, gentle reader, of being one of those morons who prefer the latest Vin Diesel “thrill ride” to the exclusion of ...

Graham Greene’s 1955 novel The Quiet American fuses a murder mystery with a scathing critique of U.S. involvement in 1950s Vietnamese politics in the midst of French occupation. The story is told from ...

When the thought of writing this piece popped into my head, the title that popped into my head with it was The ugly American because I was going to anchor it on Graham Greene’s iconic novel. It was ...