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The Collaborators

A multiple biography with overlapping chronology is a tricky feat and Buruma pulls it off magnifi...

Missionary and the Libertine

From Naipaul’s India to the last days of Hong Kong, and from the ghosts of Pearl Harbor to ...

Anglomania

"Imaginative, original--wittily written."--The Washington Post Book WorldTo some, Engla...

Conversations with John Schlesinger

“I like the surprise of the curtain going up, revealing what’s behind it.”&ndas...

Inventing Japan

In a single short book as elegant as it is wise, Ian Buruma makes sense of the most fateful span ...

Murder in Amsterdam

It was an emblematic crime: on a November day in Amsterdam, an angry young Muslim man shot and ki...

Year Zero

Many books have been written, and continue to be written, about the Second World War: military hi...

Taming the Gods

Why religion must be separated from politics if democracy is to thrive around the worldFor eight ...

New York Review Abroad

Bad Elements

Who speaks for China?Is it the old men of the politbureau or an activist like Wei Jingshsheng, ...

Theater of Cruelty

Occidentalism

Twenty-five years ago, Edward Said's Orientalism spawned a generation of scholarship on the denig...