Ian Buruma

47 books

A Japanese Mirror: Heroes and Villains of Japanese Culture by Ian Buruma

A Japanese Mirror: Heroes and Villains of Japanese Culture

Ian Buruma

242 pages • first pub 1984 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous informative relaxing slow-paced
A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq by Mehdi Mozaffari, Richard Herzinger, José Ramos-Horta, Paul Berman, Tony Blair, Adam Michnik, Ian Buruma, Mitchell Cohen, Roger Scruton, Pamela Bone, John Lloyd, Thomas Cushman, Christopher Hitchens, Mient Jan Faber, Nicolas de Warren, Anders Jerichow, Norman Geras, Daniel Kofman, Johann Hari, Richard Just, Jeffrey Herf, Jens Kruse, Jan Narveson, Jonathan Rée, Ann Clwyd, Michel Taubmann

A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq

Mehdi Mozaffari, Richard Herzinger, José Ramos-Horta, Paul Berman, Tony Blair, Adam Michnik, Ian Buruma, Mitchell Cohen, Roger Scruton, Pamela Bone, John Lloyd, Thomas Cushman, Christopher Hitchens, Mient Jan Faber, Nicolas de Warren, Anders Jerichow, Norman Geras, Daniel Kofman, Johann Hari, Richard Just, Jeffrey Herf, Jens Kruse, Jan Narveson, Jonathan Rée, Ann Clwyd, Michel Taubmann

372 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative reflective medium-paced
The Missionary and the Libertine: Love and War in East and West by Ian Buruma

The Missionary and the Libertine: Love and War in East and West

Ian Buruma

352 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction essays informative reflective medium-paced
Murder in Amsterdam: Liberal Europe, Islam, and the Limits of Tolerance by Ian Buruma

Murder in Amsterdam: Liberal Europe, Islam, and the Limits of Tolerance

Ian Buruma

288 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history politics reflective fast-paced
Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance by Ian Buruma

Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance

Ian Buruma

288 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history politics reflective fast-paced
Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies by Ian Buruma, Avishai Margalit

Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies

Ian Buruma, Avishai Margalit

176 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy politics challenging reflective slow-paced
Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents by Ian Buruma

Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents

Ian Buruma

132 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history politics religion informative reflective slow-paced
Theater of Cruelty: Art, Film, and the Shadows of War by Ian Buruma

Theater of Cruelty: Art, Film, and the Shadows of War

Ian Buruma

425 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction art essays challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War by Ian Buruma

Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War

Ian Buruma

320 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction biography history memoir emotional slow-paced
A Tokyo Romance by Ian Buruma

A Tokyo Romance

Ian Buruma

256 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir reflective slow-paced