Ian Buruma
Author of Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies
About the Author
Ian Buruma is currently the Luce Professor at Bard College.
Image credit: Photo by Larry D. Moore at the Texas Book Festival
Works by Ian Buruma
Theater of Cruelty: Art, Film, and the Shadows of War (New York Review Books Collection) (2014) 49 copies
The Churchill Complex: The Curse of Being Special, from Winston and FDR to Trump and Brexit (2020) 32 copies
The New York Review of Books — Editor — 11 copies
Noguchi y la figura : b Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, febrero-mayo 1999 : Museo Rufino Tamayo,… (1999) 3 copies
De boom van Herder 2 copies
The New York Review of Books 65/01 ● January 18 - February 7, 2018 ☯ — Editor — 1 copy
Associated Works
Berlin in Lights: The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler, 1918-1937 (1961) — Introduction, some editions — 132 copies
Know the Past, Find the Future: The New York Public Library at 100 (2011) — Contributor — 115 copies
The Company They Kept, Volume Two: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships (2011) — Contributor — 20 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Buruma, Ian
- Legal name
- Buruma, Ian
- Other names
- BURMA, Ian
- Birthdate
- 1951-12-28
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Netherlands (birth)
UK (passport) - Birthplace
- The Hague, Netherlands
- Places of residence
- New York, New York, USA
- Education
- Leiden University (Chinese Literature)
Nihon University (Tokyo, Japanese Film) - Occupations
- writer
editor - Relationships
- Buruma, Ybo (cousin)
Schlesinger, John (uncle) - Organizations
- Far Eastern Economic Review
Bard College
New York Review of Books - Awards and honors
- Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellowship (Washington|DC)
Oxford Fellowship (St. Antony's College)
Erasmusprijs (2008)
Gouden Ganzenveer (2018)
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Reviews
Year Zero: A History of 1945 (ALA Notable Books for… by Ian Buruma
Really interesting history about what was happening to various peoples and nations in 1945, just after the big war.
5804. Their Promised Land My Grandparents in Love and War, by Ian Buruma (read 16 Oct 2022) This book, published in 2016, tells of the author's grandparents, who were born in England of German Jewish parents. His grandfather's,surname was Schlesinger and he served in the British Army in World War One and again in the Second World War. This resulted in many letters from his grandfather to his grandmother, even though they did not marry till 1927. The author relies on those letters to tell the story of his grandparents' lives. The account is of considerable interest when dealing with the lives but there is much about their love and fears and over time this gets a bit tiresome. But there are good parts of the book and it was readable. It is a different way to compile a biography and the book is not unreadable tho not excessively gripping at times.… (more)
Even though we get along well, my father and I see the world very differently. This book does more than any other to help me understand the perspective of my father's generation. More than a mere reporting of events, Burma delves into the minds of the people living through them.
The war ended in 1945, but, otherwise, 1945 was a pretty awful year. Year Zero is a depressing read. Nonetheless, it's well-written and it helped me understand how we ended up where we are now. It also filled in my understanding of the difficult decisions that had to be made after the war by governments and individuals alike.
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- Works
- 59
- Also by
- 13
- Members
- 3,947
- Popularity
- #6,405
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
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- ISBNs
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- Favorited
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- Touchstones
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