Jacob Silverman

Jacob Silverman's work has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, Tablet, and many other publications. He lives in New York and is also a contributing editor for the Virginia Quarterly Review. He tweets here.

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Culture Kvetch: Retweet This War

How social media and cellphone cameras have brought us to the limit of spectatorship

Culture Kvetch: Women Aren’t Funny? Really?

Yael Kohen’s ‘We Killed’ and the evolution of women’s roles in American comedy

Culture Kvetch: Shani Boianjiu and the Problems of Youth

A new Israeli writer sheds light on life in the IDF

Culture Kvetch: Stop Calling Porn Star James Deen a ‘Nice Jewish Boy’

Sometimes, a Jewish porn star is just a Jewish porn star

Culture Kvetch: Watching the Anti-War Documentary ‘Tears of Gaza’

The 2010 documentary, screening this week in New York, offers an uncensored—if one-sided—look at violence and bloodshed in Gaza

Culture Kvetch: The Jews of HBO’s ‘Boardwalk Empire’

The Jewish characters of HBO’s Prohibition drama are sometimes hackneyed and unsettling, but they’re always great TV

Culture Kvetch: Andy Zaltzman, Radio Comic for an Internet World

John Oliver’s lesser-known partner on British podcast “The Bugle” mixes low-brow, pun-filled humor with scabrous political satire

Gary Shteyngart’s Blurbs: A Journey to the End of Praise

What the creator of “The Collected Blurbs of Gary Shteyngart” has learned while doggedly cataloging the writer’s numerous nuggets of literary praise