Dean Van Nguyen
Author of Words for My Comrades: A Political Biography of Tupac Shakur, who analyzes Tupac's life, politics and posthumous legend within hip-hop and activist contexts.
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Jun 16, 2025 • 42min
The Idea of Genius
Francesca Wade, biographer of Gertrude Stein, sketches Stein’s Parisian salon and crafted persona. Dean Van Nguyen, political biographer of Tupac Shakur, traces Tupac’s politics and his evolving posthumous legend. Helen Lewis, author of The Genius Myth, critiques how societies construct and mythologize ‘genius’. They debate celebrity, self-fashioning, support networks and how myths obscure labor and context.
