Historian Ian Buruma chronicles the lives of ordinary Berliners — including his own father — during World War II. Stay Alive ...

A new history of Berlin during World War II and a popular writer accepts life in a throuple ...

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 ...

Yesterday, I stopped briefly in Philadelphia to deliver a short paper at the Philadelphia Society’s 43rd National Meeting. The general topic this year was “Challenges to Conservatism.” (I, too, have a ...

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 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 left his position as editor of The New York Review of Books today after only a year. A spokesperson for the magazine confirmed to Observer that he had departed the magazine, though it’s not ...

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 ...