New York Review of Books editor Ian Buruma steps down amid outrage over essay

11:37am PDT - September 19th, 2018    new amsterdam - The Guardian (AU)

The writer and academic departs after publishing and defending essay deemed to be at odds with the spirit of #MeToo Ian Buruma, the writer and academic, has stepped down from the editorship of the New York Review of Books after only 16 months, after he caused…