Ian Buruma
Men Explain Anne Frank To Me
From Philip Roth to Ryan Murphy, men keep pretending Anne Frank survived the Holocaust. Why?
Memo To A Sexist Editor: You Are Not A Martyr
Ian Buruma implies that women’s anger, expressed on social media, is both unjust and anarchic.
Anton Yelchin’s Last Film, Ira Glass At RadioLoveFest And More To Read, Watch And Do This Weekend
Treat the next few days like a true winter weekend by settling in with one of several exciting new books.
How Jews Found 'Promised Land' by Being British
In a terrific new memoir, historian Ian Buruma examines his grandparents’ lives to learn how Jewishness and Britishness can coexist.
Jewish Conspiracy Theories All The Rage in Asia
Books that purport to chronicle world Jewry’s plot to rule the world are flying off shelves in China and Japan. Such conspiracy theories are also prevalent in Malaysia, the Philippines and, to some extent, throughout Asia, according to a recently published essay by the Anglo-Dutch writer Ian Buruma. But unlike standard-issue Western antisemitism — accusations of Christ-killing, blood libel — the anti-Jewish propaganda in contemporary Asia is not religious in nature, Buruma writes: