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Ian Buruma, professor of democracy, human rights, and journalism at Bard College, talked about his book, Year Zero: A History of 1945, in which he examines the world following the end of Wor…

From the 2018 Brooklyn Book Festival, Ian Buruma moderated a discussion with authors Mary Schmidt Campbell, Julian Lucas, and Philip Lopate on the global impact of art on social and politica…

Ian Buruma, editor of the New York Review of Books, talked about living in Japan and learning about the country’s politics and culture.

Contributors to the New York Review of Books talked about immigration. Panelists included Masha Gessen, author of The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia; Yasmine El Rash…

Eri Hotta, former research fellow at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo, talked about her book, Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy, in which she examines the attack on …

Ian Buruma talked about his book Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance, published by Penguin Press. He read excerpts from his book. Professor Buruma tal…

Ian Buruma talked about the book he co-authored with Avishai Margalit, Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies, published by Penguin Books. In the book the authors examined what …

Foreign policy analysts talked about the future of Iraq and governing Iraq without President Saddam Hussein. Among the topics they addressed were the current government’s intelligence operat…

Ian Buruma talked about his book Bad Elements: Chinese Rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing, published by Random House. The book is about Chinese pro-democracy dissidents around the world. Mr.…