I just finished reading the pages and pages of letters published by the NYRB regarding their recent piece by Jian Ghomeshi. And while it was refreshing to read many of these letters, because the vast majority of them were both powerful and deeply critical, I find myself somehow being angrier with the NYRB than I was beforehand.

While most of these letters were critical of the Ghomeshi piece and the NYRB's decision to run it, and often quite appropriately scathing in their condemnation, the NYRB peppered in supportive letters among the critical ones. And I found this in almost worse taste than I did the original publication of the Ghomeshi article, because it indicates that the NYRB still fails to understand the problem.

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