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Jacob Silverman

is a freelance journalist and book critic in New York. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Slate, Bookforum, Tablet, The Daily Beast, VQR, the Christian Science Monitor, The National, and The Atlantic. He is also a contributing editor for the Virginia Quarterly Review and a columnist for Jewcy.

Essays & Reviews

The Lights Are On but Nobody's Home

By Jacob SilvermanJuly 16, 2014
Who Needs the Internet of Things? Not you, but corporations who want to imprison you in their technological ecosystem
Essays & Reviews

City Under Siege

By Jacob SilvermanSeptember 6, 2012
Once the War on Terror began, city dwellers everywhere found themselves living in occupied territories
Essays & Reviews

By Any Other Name

By Jacob SilvermanAugust 7, 2012
A public-relations makeover for Predator drones? It's all in the lingo.
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