Original research, new translations, and previously unpublished works of art illuminate a pivotal...

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

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

Buruma's prismatic, fascinating first novel is a portrait of Ranji, the cricket player who was 'n...

'Imaginative, original--wittily written.'--The Washington Post Book WorldTo some, England has lon...

From Shanghai before and during the Second World War to U.S. occupied Tokyo, and, finally, to the...

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

A revelatory look at what happens when political Islam collides with the secular WestIan Buruma...

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In 1939, when Ian Buruma's epic opens, Berlin has been under Nazi rule for six years, and its 4.3...