Jacob Mikanowski, author portrait

Jacob Mikanowski

JACOB MIKANOWSKI is a historian, a freelance journalist and a critic. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Aeon, Cabinet, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Guardian, The New York Times, newyorker.com, The Point, The Awl, Atlas Obscura, Slate, ahe Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. He lives in Berkeley, CA.
Goodbye, Eastern Europe

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Goodbye, Eastern Europe

FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Jacob Mikanowski’s Goodbye, Eastern Europe

Goodbye, Eastern Europe is a crucial, elucidative read, a sweeping epic chronicling a thousand years that illuminates the remarkable cultural significance and richness of a place perpetually lost to the margins of history.   Part I Faiths 1 Pagans and Christians A great forest, bristling with dangers and the occasional gleam of treasure: that is

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