Two Jews, One Opinion
Jacob Silverman on why a debate about liberal support for Israel fell short.
Jacob Silverman is a contributing editor for the Virginia Quarterly Review. His work has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Bookforum, The New Republic, and many other publications.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Don’t be fooled by Douglas Rushkoff’s warnings that we can’t cope with a fast, digital world, says Jacob Silverman.
Lifesaver
That’s the line David Shields takes in his 'memoir'—really an argument against storytelling. Jacob Silverman is unimpressed.
GAZA IN NEW YORK
Brooklyn Diplomacy
Mainstreaming Finklestein
Pankaj Mishra presents the intellectuals who stood up to the West but ignored the ills of their own Eastern regimes. By Jacob Silverman.
Jacob Silverman profiles one of the Arab world’s leading novelists, Elias Khoury, to discuss his radical political past and provocative fiction.
The pop-neuroscience writer was caught recycling his own material. Will he suffer consequences? By Jacob Silverman.
