The editor of the prestigious New York Review of Books, subject of a torrent of outrage after commissioning a controversial personal essay by disgraced former CBC Radio star Jian Ghomeshi, is no longer with the publication. “I can confirm Ian Buruma is no longer with the magazine,” a Review spokeswoman who declined to give her name said Wednesday afternoon. Neither Buruma, Hederman nor Ghomeshi responded to the National Post’s requests for comment prior to deadline. The magazine’s top editor, Buruma had assigned and championed the over-3,400-word essay by Ghomeshi, published online last Friday. “The New York Review can write about anything that it wants to,” said Hederman, in a speech at the University of Missouri.

Source: National Post September 19, 2018 22:39 UTC