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.
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Liberalism And Zionism (Sort Of) Debated
Jacob Silverman on why a debate about liberal support for Israel fell short. MORE
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The Future Is Nothing New
Don’t be fooled by Douglas Rushkoff’s warnings that we can’t cope with a fast, digital world, says... MORE
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Is Fiction Worthless?
That’s the line David Shields takes in his 'memoir'—really an argument against storytelling.... MORE
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Twin Protests
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Oren Makes Friends, Not News
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Not Trying To Cause A Big Sensation
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Welcome to Modern India!
We're in a golden age of writing about India, and Rob Verger, Jacob Silverman and Mythili Rao pick... MORE
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Against the West
Pankaj Mishra presents the intellectuals who stood up to the West but ignored the ills of their own... MORE
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The New Edward Said
Jacob Silverman profiles one of the Arab world’s leading novelists, Elias Khoury, to discuss his... MORE
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How to Self-Plagiarize
The pop-neuroscience writer was caught recycling his own material. Will he suffer consequences?... MORE
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Magical Thinking On Netanyahu
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3 Must Read Novels
Ballard’s posthumous novel about consumerism, 'Treasure Island' reimagined today by Nick Dybek, and... MORE
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4 Must Read Fiction
This week: Lauren Groff’s ‘Arcadia’ takes utopia seriously and Tom McCarthy decodes the plot of... MORE
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3 Must Reads
From a powerful memoir of mourning to a biting satire at Gitmo to a novel about the beginning,... MORE
