Jacob Silverman

I’ll be writing a column twice a month for Jewcy, about culture, media, matters Jewish and everything in between. Here’s my first, about the miasma of grief on Twitter following celebrity deaths: “On Twitter, Grief is Just Another Meme.”

For Tablet magazine, I wrote about the attempt by Code Pink, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and Reprieve UK to start an anti-drone campaign. They held a conference late last month in Washington, D.C., which I attended. Read the article here.

For Capital New York, I talked to Margaret Atwood about her new documentary, Payback, climate change, her thoughts on debt, and why she’s not an activist.

[photo by Bert Kaufman]

Yesterday, The Daily Beast published my review of J.G. Ballard’s novel Kingdom Come. And for Capital New York, I recently talked to Rajesh Parameswaran about his debut book, I Am an Executioner: Love Stories. Both books highly recommended.