Ian Buruma's maternal grandparents, Bernard and Winifred (Bun & Win), wrote to each other regular...
A multiple biography with overlapping chronology is a tricky feat and Buruma pulls it off magnifi...
Why religion must be separated from politics if democracy is to thrive around the worldFor eight ...
Many books have been written, and continue to be written, about the Second World War: military hi...
From Naipaul's India to the last days of Hong Kong, and from the ghosts of Pearl Harbor to Benazi...
'I like the surprise of the curtain going up, revealing what's behind it.'-John SchlesingerThe Br...
'Imaginative, original--wittily written.'--The Washington Post Book WorldTo some, England has lon...
In a single short book as elegant as it is wise, Ian Buruma makes sense of the most fateful span ...
Who speaks for China?Is it the old men of the politbureau or an activist like Wei Jingshsheng, ...
Winner of the PEN Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay.Ian Buruma is fascinated...
When Sidney Vanoven is sent to occupied Japan, in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War...
It was an emblematic crime: on a November day in Amsterdam, an angry young Muslim man shot and ki...