Before beginning our interview, Ian Buruma asks to stand in front of the French windows on the 27th floor of Shanghai JC Mandarin Hotel on Nanjing Road West for a while. Overlooking the architectural ...

An account of the decisive first moment of the modern world, Buruma's (The China Lover, Occidentalism) history explores the nascent social and political forces that ...

Ian Buruma’s “The Collaborators” takes on three complex, disparate figures with notably controversial war records. By Lesley M. M. Blume When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our ...

40 pages into Ian Buruma’s fascinating biography of the 17th-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza, some very modern language leaps from the page. “When people are banished from their community,” Buruma ...

World War II Berlin had its share of fanatical Nazis, along with a handful of courageous resisters. But it is the people navigating between these two moral poles that seem to interest Ian Buruma the ...

Publication remains silent over rift with Ian Buruma, who faced criticism over his editorial decisions on #MeToo movement Ian Buruma, the former editor-in-chief of the New York Review of Books who was ...

Ian Buruma’s commentaries on some Asian countries are compiled in his book, God’s Dust: A Modern Asian Journey. Mr. Buruma tries to veer away from stereotyping the East as a strange object of ...

Susan Sheehan won the Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction for her book “Is There No Place on Earth for Me?” When an author uncovers a ­half-century’s worth of hidden correspondence between his ...

An immersive account of how the inhabitants of a liberal city – including the author’s father – survived fascism In December 1941, the Nazi authorities received a letter from a soldier complaining ...

NEW YORK CITY Harlem is glowing in the afternoon sun. The buildings are low here, the avenues wide. The light shines on the concrete and on the rowan trees that pierce it. Two motorbikes race along ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Ian Buruma is a highly respected academic and author who shot to international prominence with his book ...