He is the editor-in-chief of The New York Times Magazine and the author of Nothing Happened and Then It Did, a novelized memoir.
Silverstein was raised in Oakland, California, in a Jewish family,[1][2] the eldest of two children.
[6] After graduating from college, Silverstein interned at Harper's in 1998, continued at the magazine for a year as a fact-checker,[6] then moved to The Big Bend Sentinel in Marfa, Texas in 1999.
[3][7] Under his tenure, the magazine had a circulation of approximately 300,000 and rising revenue, in contrast to many similar publications in the same period.
Some historians argue the project contains factual inaccuracies and distortions in attributing slavery a central role in the American Revolution.