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Ian Buruma lost his job at the NYRB after publishing a controversial article. Here he reflects on what went wrong
‘Britain’s intellectual dominance has been extraordinary for a mid-sized country with mostly mediocre schools’
The life story of an intellectual who lived in Japan in his youth and dabbled in dance and theatre
Tokyo’s version of ‘get our country back’ is to undo the Americans’ postwar order, writes Ian Buruma
The author’s journey back two generations is a poignant account of a struggle to belong
Screen siren with roles that played out in her equally extraordinary real life
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