Ian Buruma: Global Thinker

Ian Buruma is a noted academic, journalist, and public intellectual, as well as a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and the New Yorker. Coming on the heels of his widely celebrated "Year Zero: A History of 1945," his new collection of essays, "Theater of Cruelty: Art, Film, and the Shadows of War," explores the interactions between art—literature, film, painting—and war, with a particular emphasis on World War II, Germany, and Japan. Join the conversation with one of today’s leading geopolitical thinkers.

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