…after the death of the awful Robert Silvers, so I'm rather sorry to learn that he's been canned for one questionable editorial decision.  I read the piece in question–it was certainly self-serving, but it was also interesting to hear from a serial miscreant.  But for the first time in awhile, under Buruma, the NYRB had more intellectually diverse contributors, and was less a "friends of Silvers" affair.