Ian Buruma, Author . Random $27.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-679-45768-8
Myths abound about China: all Chinese everywhere are united in a community of enduring culture; Western-style democracy is unsuited to China, as it would bring only chaos and the disruption of unity. In this brilliant report of his encounters with...
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Ian Buruma, Author . Random $14.95 (177p) ISBN 978-0-375-75763-1
How does an accomplished historian of Asia (Inventing Japan
) come to write about an Oscar-winning director? Buruma, it turns out, is Schlesinger's nephew—as a small child, he even had a brief cameo in one of his uncle's earliest short
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Ian Buruma, Author . Penguin Press $24.95 (278p) ISBN 978-1-59420-108-0
Van Gogh, a provocative media personality in the Netherlands, was shot and stabbed on an Amsterdam street in November 2004 by a young radical, the son of Moroccan immigrants, who accused him of blasphemy against Islam. When Buruma (Bad Elements
)...
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Ian Buruma, Author . Penguin Press $26.95 (392p) ISBN 978-1-59420-194-3
The second novel (following 1991's Playing the Game
) from nonfiction specialist Buruma (Behind the Mask
, etc.) is based with biographical diligence on the life of the Japanese actress known variously as Ri Koran, Yoshiko Yamaguchi and (in...
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Ian Buruma, Author . Princeton Univ. $19.95 (132p) ISBN 978-0-691-13489-5
The place of organized religion in the public square is well-trammeled territory; in this brief volume, journalist and Bard College professor Buruma (Murder in Amsterdam
) adds to the discussion with political and cultural analyses from the United...
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Ian Buruma, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $18.95 (267p) ISBN 978-0-374-16458-4
Buruma ( Behind the Mask ) writes with trenchant skepticism yet implicit sympathy about the ``cultural confusion, the endless searching for meaning and national identity'' in contemporary Burma, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan,
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Ian Buruma, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $19 (231p) ISBN 978-0-374-23452-2
Journalist and nonfiction author Buruma ( Meridian ; God's Dust ) has written often and eloquently of the odd intersections of East and West in Asia. Recently he has evinced interest in the peculiarities of class in England, his adopted home. In his
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Ian Buruma, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-28595-1
This thought-provoking inquiry has a powerful theme: people must be held accountable for the society in which they live. To learn why the collective German memory of WW II is so different from the Japanese, Buruma ( Playing the Game ) traveled...
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Ian Buruma, Author Plume Books $12.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-452-01156-4
Buruma examines how Germany and Japan have separately dealt with the guilt they bear for acts committed during WWII. (June)
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Ian Buruma, Author Random House (NY) $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-375-50222-4
Buruma (Anglomania) first became fascinated with the East in 1971 during a Japanese theater show in Amsterdam, and he has maintained this interest ever since. Here, in a collection of essays on the cultural interplay between Asia and the West (severa
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Ian Buruma, Author Random House (NY) $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-375-50206-4
At a time when Britain appears more amenable to--if not exactly thrilled by--the notion of integrating itself into the European Union, Buruma (The Wages of Guilt, etc.) addresses the issue of England's place in Europe by examining the long-standing...
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Ian Buruma. Penguin, $29.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-59420-436-4
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 later influenced the Cold War and post–colonial movements and ultimately defined the
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Ian Buruma. ew York Review Books, $29.95 (440p) ISBN 978-1-59017-777-8
This collection presents 28 articles—reviews of films, books, and art exhibits as well as some travelogues, originally published in the New York Review of Books—by Dutch critic Buruma. As the title suggests, the theme of art and war apply to most...
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Ian Buruma. Penguin Press, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-59420-438-8
Buruma (Year Zero: A History of 1945) delivers a moving, intimate portrait of his grandparents, Bernard and Winifred “Win” Schlesinger (the parents of film director John Schlesinger, of Midnight Cowboy fame), through a close reading of their...
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Ian Buruma. Penguin Press, $26 (256p) ISBN 978-1-101-98141-2
New York Review of Books editor Buruma reflects on his immersion in the artistic underworlds of late 1970s Tokyo in this lucid, engrossing memoir. A bored university student from the Netherlands, Buruma was intrigued by the exotic Japan of film and...
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Ian Buruma. Penguin Press, $27 (320p) ISBN 978-0-525-52220-1
Buruma (A Tokyo Romance) examines the dynamics between U.S. presidents and British prime ministers in this brisk and insightful history. Positioning Winston Churchill (who was born to a British father and an American mother and used the phrase...
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Ian Buruma. Penguin Press, $30 (320p) ISBN 978-0-593-29664-6
In this illuminating and variegated group biography, Buruma (The Churchill Complex) reconsiders three notorious WWII figures: Felix Kersten, the “plump bon vivant” who became S.S. chief Heinrich Himmler’s masseur and confidant; Friedrich Weinreb, a...
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Ian Buruma. Yale Univ, $26 (216p) ISBN 978-0-300-24892-0
The life and thought of Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) can prove instructive for “our own censorious time of dangerous political polarization,” according to this admiring biography from bestseller Buruma (The Collaborators). Born into...
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