Jacob Silverman

For The New Yorker’s Elements blog, I wrote about the 3-D printing of guns and the ideology behind it.

A couple other recent things: watching the film “The Attack” with the Boston Marathon bombings in the background, and a panel debate about Zionism and liberalism.

I reviewed Arnon Grunberg’s Tirza for this Sunday’s Los Angeles Times. 

“Parental love is the sacrifice made in silence,” says Jorgen Hofmeester, the protagonist of “Tirza,” Arnon Grunberg’s latest translated novel. In “Tirza,” the quiet martyrdom of parenthood rubs up against the banality of bourgeois life. Sacrifices go un-repaid and parents struggle as their children begin to spin beyond their orbit and their own carefully tended lives are revealed as hollow.

The rest is here.

Recent work

A review of William Gerhardie’s Futility.

On the new Philip Roth documentary.

A review of Douglas Rushkoff’s jargon-filled Present Shock.