About Jacob Silverman
Culture Kvetch: Women Aren’t Funny? Really?
Yael Kohen’s ‘We Killed’ and the evolution of women’s roles in American comedy Read More
Culture Kvetch: Shani Boianjiu and the Problems of Youth
A new Israeli writer sheds light on life in the IDF Read More
Culture Kvetch: Stop Calling Porn Star James Deen a ‘Nice Jewish Boy’
Sometimes, a Jewish porn star is just a Jewish porn star Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More