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JournalismThe New York Review of Books Most recently:
December 17, 2009 Occupied Paris: The Sweet and the Cruel The Journal of Helene Berr translated from the French and with an introduction and an essay by David Bellos, and an afterword by Mariette Job Journal, 1940?1950 by Philippe Jullian Jean Cocteau by Claude Arnaud Resistance: Memoirs of Occupied France by Agnes Humbert, translated from the French and with notes by Barbara Mellor, and an afterword by Julien Blanc 1940?1945 Annees erotiques: De la Grande Prostituee a la revanche des males by Patrick Buisson Les Parisiens sous l'Occupation: Photographies en couleurs d'Andre Zucca by Jean Baronnet, with a preface by Jean-Pierre Azema Collaboration and Resistance: French Literary Life Under the Nazi Occupation by Olivier Corpet and Claire Paulhan, with a preface by Robert O. Paxton and an essay by Jean-Paul Sartre, translated from the French by Jeffrey Mehlman et al
June 11, 2009 Escape in Japan
May 14, 2009 Living with Islam
La Peur des barbares: Au-dela du choc des civilisations [Fear of the Barbarians: Beyond the Clash of Civilizations] by Tzvetan Todorov
December 4, 2008 Desire in Berlin Kirchner and the Berlin Street an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, August 3?November 10, 2008.
November 20, 2008 The Lessons of the Master The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul by Patrick French
http://www.nybooks.com/authors/8 The New Yorker (partial list) Letter From Amsterdam (December 7, 2009) Parade's End: Dutch Liberals Get Tough
The Malay Dilemma (May 16, 2009)
After America (April 21, 2008) Is the West being overtaken by the rest? War and Remembrance (September 18, 2006) Shrouded by the Gunter Grass controversy is an extraordinary new memoir Kim World (August 22, 2005) Inside the North Korean Slave State Final Cut (January 3, 2005) After a filmmaker's murder, the Dutch creed of tolerance has come under siege Lost in Translation The two minds of Bernard Lewis (June 14, 2004) Blood Libel Hitler and history in the dock (April 16, 2001) Becoming Japanese (December 23&30, 1996) Getting to Know Zhou On Eldest Son: Zhou Enlai and the Making of Modern China, by Han Suyin and Bitter Winds: A memoir of My Years in China's Gulag, by Harry Wu and Carolyn Wakeman (May 23, 1994) The New York Times The New York Times Magazine Of Musical Import (May 4, 2008) THE WAY WE LIVE NOW; Political Games (September 23, 2007) Tariq Ramadan Has an Identity Issue (February 4, 2007) Mr. Vengeance (April 9, 2006) Uncaptive Minds (February 20, 2005) An Islamic Democracy for Iraq? (December 5, 2004) How to Talk About Israel (August 31, 2003) What Beijing Can Learn From Moscow (September 2, 2001) The Pilgrimage From Tiananmen Square (April 11, 1999) Hong Kong, Feeling Flu-ish (February 1, 1998) Poland's New Jewish Question (August 3, 1997) China: New York... or Singapore? (February 18, 1996) Anxiety in 3/4 Time (November 8, 1992) Japan's Emperor of Film (October 29, 1989) After Hirohito: What Remains Sacred (May 28, 1989) A Nation Divided (January 15, 1989) Reclaiming Taiwan (September 18, 1988) Singapore (June 12, 1988) The Quarrelsome Koreans (March 27, 1988) A New Japanese Nationalism (April 12, 1987) Book Reviews
The Greatest Story Ever Sold - By Frank Rich (September 17, 2006) The Saint's Tactician (January 11, 2004) The Mandate of Heaven (March 18, 2001) Depravity Was Contagious (December 10, 2000) Misplaced Person (October 3, 1999) In the Land of Market-Leninism (September 18, 1994) Fatal Attractions (February 13, 1994) The Limo-Ization of Beijing (June 19, 1988, Sunday) Ancestors at Home and Abroad (March 30, 1986) A Samuraifs Remarkable Wife (September 15, 1985) Op-Ed Hard Luck for a Hard-Liner (May 19, 2006) Killing Iraq With Kindness (March 17, 2004) How Iraq Can Get Over Its Past (May 9, 2003) Jorg Haider's Other Message (February 7, 2000) What Happened to the Asian Century? (December 29, 1999) The Sect That Became an Enemy of the State (July 25, 1999) War Guilt, and the Difference Between Germany and Japan (December 29, 1998) The Spymaster in a Kangaroo Court (December 8, 1993) Seoul, Tokyo: Getting Together (September 6, 1984)
Project Syndicate March 2010 The Dutch Retreat February 2010 The New French Fashion in Civil Rights January 2010 A Dissident in China December 2009 Mountains and Minarets Novermber 2009 What's Left After 1989 October 2009 Roman Polanski's American Dream September 2009 The Re-Birth of Japanese Democracy Revolts of the Righteous (October 2007) The History Man (September 2007)
The Wall Street Journal Battling the Information Barbarians (Jan.30, 2010) China's Grab for Olympic Glory (June 13, 2008)
June 21, 2009: The Sunday Times, When
The Financial Times FT Weekend Magazine Clash of symbols - Sporting history is bound up in the allegiances of its supporters, whether the competitors like it or not. The danger comes when harmless pride slips into excessive prejudice (September 24, 2005) Winning the peace - Much of the fiercest criticism of the application of US might comes from Europe. But Europeans have benefited from the Pax Americana for 60 years - and we still need it (August 20, 2005) Sacred freedom - The Dutch politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali lives under permanent police protection because of death threats against her. But her views on radical Islam remain completely unguarded (August 6, 2005) Homeland insecurity - Police say at least three of the London bombers were from Yorkshire. Most British Muslims were outraged, but we can't deny that Islam motivated the killers, however they perverted it (July 16, 2005) Who do you think you are? Some crave anonymity, others yearn to see their name in lights, and there are those in search of reinvention. In the US, personal identity has become a national obsession (June 25, 2005 ) A sorry state - A new breed of rightwing patriots say that Japan has apologised enough for war crimes. Their controversial views, reflected in a revisionist history textbook, are being lapped up by the young, (May 28, 2005) On the offensive - The Holocaust and anti-Semitism are being denuded of meaning by their use in casual political insults and as trump cards to quash debate about the Middle East (April 23, 2005) Gods and monsters - A controversial new German film sets out to demystify Hitler's downfall and his seduction of ordinary people - yet it falls into a trap laid by the self-mythologising dictator himself (March 19, 2005) Blogs in the machine Such is the influence of the weblog on the news agenda that it has helped to create and destroy US politicians. Should we trust the lone operator with a laptop? (March 12, 2005) Tortured logic - Those who inflict suffering to extract information argue it is justified to prevent atrocities against the innocent. But its use eats away at the very civilisation they claim to protect (February 5, 2005) The rest is history - China's insistent portrayal of Japan as brutal aggressor shows how ethnic nationalism is still used to shore up authoritarianism. It's a tack that owes much to the west (January 22, 2005) Injury time - Anti-Semitic taunts from Dutch football crowds highlight a classic dilemma of democracy. We might not like what someone says, or who is saying it - but are we prepared to force them to give up the right to say it? (November 6, 2004) Lights, camera, manifesto - Movie propaganda tells us life is a stark choice between good and evil. But can we enjoy the film if we don't buy the political ticket? (October 9, 2004) We shall not be moved - Israel is a dangerous place, so why did Ariel Sharon call for French Jews to emigrate there? And what prompted France's community leaders to reject the invitation so passionately? (September 11, 2004) They all lived happily ever after - Saddam Hussein isn't the first dictator to turn his hand to novel writing. So why is it that, when absolute rulers pick up their pens, the results are always something of a fiction? (August 7, 2004) Just following orders - When stories such as the torture scandal at Abu Ghraib emerge, British and US media tend to seek out the human-interest angle and home in on a few "bad apples". By doing so, they wilfully miss the point about the political culture that permits the actions of these individuals (July 3, 2004) Popular authoritarianism - Thailand might seem an unlikely cause for concern compared with Iraq or Sudan, but creeping strictures on freedom of expression and the Has the peremptory shooting of drug dealers have rung alarm bells. prospect of wealth damped public concern for accountable governance? (June 12, 2004) Reality cheque - A journalist makes up stories and becomes a minor celebrity; talk-show hosts make or break politicians; a government turns to Hollywood to produce its "news". Who is to blame for blurring the line between fact and fiction, and what happened to the obligation to be truthful? (May 15, 2004) Divide and rue - Israel is not the first, and probably won't be the last, state to build a wall around its citizens. But history shows that a barrier designed to protect can also isolate and harm (April 17, 2004) Chinoise utopia - Voltaire idealised China for its secularity and its educated elite while Jean-Paul Sartre was swept away by Maoism. Jacques Chirac's motivations for courting China are more pragmatic (March 6, 2004) It's not a competition - The struggle for victimhood is one of the contemporary world's least edifying contests. Ian Buruma argues that it ..LH.-creates hatred, suspicion and dry tinder for those with incendiary political agendas (November 29, 2003) Wielding the moral club - The left is miring itself in anti-Americanism, says Ian Buruma, instead of saving the Iraqis (September 13, 2003) Comment and Analysis In search of the elusive European soul (April 2, 2007) Tyranny in the twenty-first century (January 7, 2007) From Italy to Thailand, power lies with the urban middle class (April 11, 2006) China's persistent Japan syndrome (April 14, 2005) A flame of enlightenment has been extinguished (January 4, 2005) Politics and blind faith do not mix (June 10, 2004) A loss of identity: In an election dominated by symbols, the Tories' rhetoric has lost its potency (May 12, 2001 Saturday) Europe's mercantile spirit rediscovered (January 10, 2001) Poetry moves China's rulers to repression (August 25, 2000)
The Los Angeles Times There's no .44-caliber Koran Op-Ed: It's easy to go too far while banning words in the name of preventing violence (April 29, 2007) 60 Years of the PRC (October 11, 2009): The Sunday Times Liberal Holland hits the cultural panic button (November 19, 2006) The Guardian National Treasures (August 4, 2007) Here is a list of Ian Buruma's contributions to The Guardian starting from 1996 to 2006. Most articles are available on the internet, including his weekly columns for G2, from September 25, 2001 to January 28, 2003. Numerous other articles, such as Buruma's interview with Yasser Arafat "Portrait: More Tea, Mister Chairman" (August 8, 2003) can also be found there. The New Republic The Freedom to Offend (September 04, 2006) The Anti-American (April 29, 2002) Class Acts (September 24, 2001) The Romance of Exile (February 12, 2001) Centerfold (April 3, 2000) The Tin Ear (January 31, 2000) Two Cheers for Orientalism (January 4&11, 1999) Freedom and Charm (November 16, 1998) News of the Weird (March 30, 1998) Wolf in Wolf's Clothing (July 14&21 1997) Spandau Ballet (November 13, 1995) Sunrise, Sunset (March 20, 1995) Trading Places (April 18, 1994) The Spectator The Not So Beautiful Game (January 18, 2003) The Prospect Travel and Leisure Iconic Texas (December 2007) Phnom Penh Now (December 2007) The End of the Earth (November 2006) Manchurian Dreams (February 2006) Tokyo Lost and Found (August 2oo4) Behind the Arab Curtain (December 2003) Cultural Revolution (June 2003) Set in Stone (March 2003) Double Dutch (October 2001) Made in China (January 2001) Chronicle of Higher Education Origins of Occidentalism (February 6, 2004) BBC Radio 4 MacArthur's Baby Originally broadcast in the UK on March 14 and 21, 2003, this acclaimed radio documentary written and hosted by Ian Buruma takes a look at "a vivid cast of characters from the Occupation years: among them jazz singers, filmmakers, idealistic reformers, secret revolutionaries and ruthless gangsters." TIME Junichiro Koizumi: The PM Who Shook Up Old Japan (May 8, 2006) Lee Kuan Yew\The Philosopher King (April 18, 2005) Land of Milk and Honeys: The ages haven't withered the West's pursuit of erotic satisfaction in Asia (July 18, 2004) The Last of the Strongmen: Even with Mahathir gone, Asian authoritarianism is alive and kicking (October 20, 2003) The Princess: DIANA Why could we not avert our eyes from her? Was it because she beckoned? Or was there something else we longed for? (June 14, 1999) Lost without a Faith: In the Spiritual Vacuum of the Postwar Years, Some Japanese Seek New Gods, cover story (April 3, 1995) Foreign Affairs Taiwan's New Nationalists: Democracy with Taiwanese Characteristics (July/August 1996) The Observer Comment: Culture is no excuse for China denying its people democracy (February 3, 2008) Review on Life Sentences: Literacy Essays, by Joseph Epstein, W.W. Norton (March 29, 1998) Review on The Aachen Memorandum, by Andrew Roberts, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (October 15, 1995)
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