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Jacob Mikanowski

1 year

Today is the publication day for the UK edition of Goodbye Eastern Europe. I'm enormously proud to be published by @OneworldNews , and truly grateful for all the hard work they put into turning a rough manuscript into a gorgeous physical object.

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

6 years

When the Roman Empire fell, its elites were too wealthy to care, or even notice. From Patrick Geary, Before France and Germany.

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Jacob Mikanowski

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7 years

I was reading a history of Bosnia when this passage, on the role of TV in the buildup to the Balkan wars, stopped me in my tracks.

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Jacob Mikanowski

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1 year

It’s here! A week earlier than expected, Goodbye, Eastern Europe is now available in the U.S., in this beautiful edition from @PantheonBooks . Huge gratitude to everyone at Pantheon for the gorgeous design and editing, and most of all, for believing in the project from the outset.

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Jacob Mikanowski

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6 years

A 'Balafré,' or 'scarred man':16 of these figurines have been found in eastern Iran and Bactria. They've been interpreted variously as giants, drummers, monsters, prisoners, administrators, man-dragon hybrids and 'ophidian demons', but no one knows for sure.

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

7 years

My favorite genre of Renaissance painting is of St. Francis being strafed by lasers.

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

7 years

The Bronze Age village of Tiscali on Sardinia was built entirely inside a mountain cave. Basically my dream home; I've always wanted to live in a chasm.

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

8 years

Indian Purple Frogs live sixteen feet underground, and run and squeal like tiny, angry pigs. They also come in stacks.

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

1 year

Snapshots from a trip across Maramures and Transylvania.

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

6 years

For @gdnlongread , I wrote about how English took over the world, and why that might not be a good thing:

Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is taking over the planet

The long read: No language in history has dominated the world quite like English does today. Is there any point in resisting?

www.theguardian.com

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

7 years

This is a really strange title for a book about turtles. But I like it as convention for naming books about virtually anything else.

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

8 months

For the Guardian, I wrote about Herodotus, tree-rings, ancient plagues and a scientific revolution changing the way we look at history:

Solar storms, ice cores and nuns’ teeth: the new science of history

The long read: Advances in fields such as spectrometry and gene sequencing are unleashing torrents of new data about the ancient world – and could offer answers to questions we never even knew to ask

www.theguardian.com

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

10 months

Julia! This is so unbelievably, extraordinarily generous, I don't know what to say. Thank you!

Julia Ioffe

@juliaioffe

10 months

I've been talking everyone's ear off about "Goodbye, Eastern Europe" by Jacob Mikanowski. It is so so so so good, hands down the best book I read all year, and everyone I've recommended it to has loved it, too.

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

6 years

I've got a new essay up @LAReviewofBooks . It's about Islam in Eastern Europe as history and as myth, and why we should talk about its heritage in the same breath as al-Andalus.

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

7 years

I've got a new piece up at The Guardian!! It's a longread on the world of insect taxonomy, extinction and conservation, with all the bugs (and slugs) you could ask for:

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

7 years

I wrote a piece for the Times about my grandfather, Poland, Jews, Communism, WWII, spies and the secret police.

Opinion | My Grandfather, the Secret Policeman (Published 2017)

He was a Jewish Communist on the right side of World War II. But was he on the wrong side of history?

www.nytimes.com

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

6 years

12,000 years ago, an elderly, disabled woman was buried in a cave in the Galilee. We now think she must have been a shaman. She was laid to rest with marten skulls, an auroch's tail, a boar's forearm, a leopard's pelvis, an eagle's wing and a human foot.

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

6 years

Currency issued by the anarchist Makhno Free Territory during the Russian Civil War. The bottom one is stamped with the motto, "who will not accept this token, his ass shall be broken."

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

8 months

Had a fabulous time talking with the legendary Rick Steves about Eastern Europe - its history, what makes it so distinct, and why it is my favorite travel destination.

Rick Steves' Europe

@RickStevesEur

8 months

This week on the Travel with Rick Steves radio show: Hear about modern life in the countries of Europe's eastern half, and one American writer/artist's deep connection with the culture and landscape of Wales. Listen online at @JMikanowski

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

8 months

UK readers! Today is the publication day for the paperback version of Goodbye, Eastern Europe from @OneworldNews . I’m biased, but I think it looks great!

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

6 years

Zofia Rydet began her crowning achievement, the Sociological Record - an attempt at photographing the inside of every home in Poland, in 1979, when she was 69. Her work is everything I want out of photography; I've stood in these rooms, sat on these beds.

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

8 years

I wrote an essay about Eastern Europe, my family, fiction as history, and history as fiction:

Goodbye, Eastern Europe! | Los Angeles Review of Books

Jacob Mikanowski shares a few lessons about a vanishing Eastern Europe.

lareviewofbooks.org

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

5 years

Prehistoric statue of a bear. From Romania, c. 4500 BC.

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

1 year

A true honor to be on @cowenconvos this week. @tylercowen 's questions are more challenging than PhD orals, and about a 100x more interesting. Give it a listen here!

tylercowen

@tylercowen

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My excellent Conversation with Jacob Mikanowski, , #Poland , #EasternEurope , #Cowenconvos , @JMikanowski

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Jacob Mikanowski

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6 years

700 years ago, a caravan crossing the Sahara carrying brass bars from Morocco and cowrie shells from the Maldives ran aground in what is now Mauritania. In 1964, T. Monod was able to excavate it for just 1 day before his water ran out. It has never been found since.

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

2 years

Proofs are in! After five years of work, I'm excited to say my book "Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land" is ready for publication. It appears May 18 from Oneworld in the UK and on July 18 from Pantheon Books in the U.S.

Goodbye, Eastern Europe by Jacob Mikanowski: 9781984898098 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

In light of Russia's aggressive 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Goodbye, Eastern Europe is a crucial, elucidative read, a sweeping epic chronicling a thousand years of strife, war, and bloodshed, from...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

7 years

I've got a new piece up in the Times, about what's been going on in Poland.

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

5 years

Excited to share this! For @Harpers , I traveled to Hungary to explore the world of far-right subcultures fueling Orban's rule. Featuring nomadic revivalism, pagan weddings, shamanic drum choirs, nationalist rock operas, and Attila the Hun:

The Call of the Drums, by Jacob Mikanowski

Hungary's far right discovers its inner barbarian

harpers.org

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

8 years

An equally lovely bear, in amber. Neolithic pendant discovered in a bog near the Polish town of Slupsk, dating from c. 1500 BC.

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

7 years

The cloak on the left is made from an entire condor skin. It was purchased in 1841 by Il'ia Voznesenskii in a Nisenan village near Sacramento. It is now in St. Petersburg. To my knowledge, nothing like it remains anywhere else in the world.

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

1 year

I had a wonderful time talking about the wild and woolly world of medieval Eastern Europe with @MattLewisAuthor of the @HistoryHit podcast channel. Listen for pagan Lithuanian dukes, ferocious Cumans, and much more.

History Hit💥

@HistoryHit

1 year

From the Baltics to the Balkans, from Prague to Kiev, Eastern Europe is more than the sum total of its annexations, invasions and independence declarations. @MattLewisAuthor meets @JMikanowski to discuss how the region took shape in the Medieval period:

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

8 years

Racism, misogyny, xenophobia, antisemitism, white power, patriarchy, death,, ignorance and evil all having a great night. I feel sick.

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

7 years

Ayuxi, a Zunghar warrior who fought for the Qing. Unsurpassed with the spear. Painted by Giuseppe Castiglione, Jesuit missionary at the court the Qianlong Emperor.

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

1 year

Honored and delighted to have Goodbye Eastern Europe reviewed in The Economist. A real thrill!

The eastern half of Europe is united by its diversity

So says Jacob Mikanowski in his insightful chronicle, “Goodbye, Eastern Europe”

www.economist.com

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

6 years

Just discovering the work of Iosif Berman, the leading photojournalist of interwar Romania. Wish I could find more...

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

6 years

For @ChronicleReview , I wrote about Tim Snyder, one of the most fascinating - and polarizing - historians of our moment.

The Bleak Prophecy of Timothy Snyder

The Yale historian warns about the risk of totalitarianism under Trump. That’s great for selling books — but scholars are alarmed.

www.chronicle.com

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

6 years

What a thrill to see this piece pop up on Longform today!

Longform

@longform

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"Language at the End of the World" On rongorongo, which no one can decipher. ( @JMikanowski , @cabinetmagazine )

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Jacob Mikanowski

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7 years

Wow! My Eastern Europe piece for LARB was the 4th most read of the year. I'm totally flummoxed, but also over the Moon!

Los Angeles Review of Books

@LAReviewofBooks

7 years

@CarlosFraenkel @zunguzungu @sunsetandecho @AlanLevinovitz @MLDavies 4. "The stories of Eastern Europe offer another way of looking at the world. They are a reminder that we are not always the masters of our own fate.” @JMikanowski on the psychogeography of Eastern Europe:

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

1 year

Bosnia in the fall

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

7 years

For being a bottom-dwelling, toilet-mouthed hell-frog, Gerrothorax looks kind of sweet. Shouts to the me of the Middle Triassic.

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

7 years

How have I never known about Alphonse Mucha's 'Slavic Epic'? These paintings are bonkers (and huge). I'm going to get rid of all the furniture in my house and just sleep under 'The Apotheosis of the Slavs.'

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

7 years

I wrote about George R.R. Martin and soup for Slate. I could have gone on for 10,000 words. This is my mountaintop!

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

1 year

For Halloween - the first illustration from Goodbye, Eastern Europe: two young men dressed in costume for Śmigus-dyngus, or Dyngus Day, a celebration traditionally held on Easter Monday. Dobra, Poland, 1916. Photo by Leopold Węgrzynowicz.

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

7 years

Odobenocetops - the walrus whale - was a short-lived and, frankly, ridiculous detour in the history of cetacean evolution. I wish it had gone on forever.

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

6 years

The people of Europe's oldest urban settlement, Lepenski Vir in Serbia, lived off giant sturgeon that swam up the Danube every spring, which they beat to death with stone clubs. What did they worship? The sturgeon god, obviously.

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

1 year

Over the moon to see this review of Goodbye, Eastern Europe in the WSJ by Robert D. Kaplan. And on my birthday no less! A great start to 41.

‘Goodbye, Eastern Europe’ Review: Between Russia and the West

After the Berlin Wall fell, few states wanted to identify as ‘Eastern European.’ But the region has a rich and vital common history.

www.wsj.com

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

7 years

I'm excited to say I've got a piece up in the new issue of Cabinet Magazine. It's on the undecipherable rongorongo script of Easter Island. If you like glyphs, skulls, puzzles, or even, root vegetables - give it a read here:

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

6 years

I've got a new piece up @laphamsquart , about the man who figured out the age of the Earth, his Soviet jailers, his Nazi handlers, and the atom bomb plot that could have ended everything:

Time After Time | Jacob Mikanowski

Fritz Houtermans at the beginning—and nearly the end—of the world.

www.laphamsquarterly.org

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

5 years

In the 1970s, the Albanian painter Edi Hala was sentenced to a re-education camp for 'misuse of color.' Today, he's one of the most important artists in Europe. I love his strange, somber landscapes, like this one:

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Jacob Mikanowski

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7 years

Bay Trail + Napa Fire.

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Jacob Mikanowski

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6 years

Owl drawn on slate - an artifact from southern Spain, made about 4800 years ago.

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Jacob Mikanowski

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7 years

I can't wait to get down to the De Young to see these incredible portraits of leading Maori of the late 19th century by Gottfried Lindauer.

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

7 years

Terror Birds loved tiny horses so much, they ate them like jujyfruits.

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

1 year

To celebrate the publication day, I wrote a short essay for the Guardian about one of my favorite research trips - a revelatory two-week trip around Albania.

‘The music moved me to tears’: falling in love with Albania

After visiting 17 countries for his latest book, our writer leaves his heart in Albania – ‘a country of knotty history, boundless hospitality and infinite surprises’

www.theguardian.com

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

7 years

Hey! My Guardian long read about the great insect die-off is now available as a silky-smooth audio podcast. Listen here:

‘A different dimension of loss’: inside the great insect die-off – podcast

Scientists have identified 2 million species of living things. No one knows how many more are out there, and tens of thousands may be vanishing before we have even had a chance to encounter them

www.theguardian.com

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

5 years

This is a tremendous honor. I’m thrilled to be in such wonderful company.

The Robert B. Silvers Foundation

@silversfound

5 years

We are delighted to announce the winners of the first annual Silvers Grants for Work in Progress. Thirty-five supremely talented writers of essay, criticism, and political and social commentary: @nybooks @parisreview @bookcritics @nytimesbooks @TheTLS

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Jacob Mikanowski

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7 years

For @chronicle , I wrote about how grad school resembles the Austro-Hungarian Army. Life in both institutions can be absurd, tragic, and a bit funny too.

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7 years

I love this weird George Catlin painting of a prairie fire. People should paint more prairie fires.

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

6 years

"Fairy Tale" - a painting by the visionary Lithuanian artist, composer, synesthete, and, eventually, madman, Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis.

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8 years

A lovely bear pendant from Russia, in the Permian version of the animal style, 6th or 7th century AD.

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6 years

Coyotes at dusk

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4 years

The first cities weren’t built in the Near East. They were built in Moldova and Ukraine. The culture that built them worshiped goddesses, made exquisite pottery, and pioneered metalworking. Then they disappeared. Archaeologists now think it was because of the plague.

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6 years

I loved this photo essay about some of Europe's oldest pagans, the Mari.

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

7 years

@Merryberry21 Noel Malcolm, Bosnia: A Short History (very much recommended!)

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

9 months

Goodbye, Eastern Europe is a finalist for the Oregon Book Awards!

Literary Arts

@literaryarts

9 months

We are so excited to announce the finalists for the 2024 Oregon Book Awards! Winners will be announced at the Oregon Book Awards ceremony on April 8, 2024. See the full list at or read the thread below.

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

4 years

I have a little piece in this month's Harper's Magazine, about the Spomeniks, everyone's favorite off-beat post-war socialist architectural gems.

Harper's Magazine

@Harpers

4 years

. @JMikanowski parses the vexed history of spomeniks, the former Yugoslavia's WWII monuments that have become global @instagram stars for Brutalist architecture enthusiasts.

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7 years

Tfw you're a bear, and Krishna wants to fight you to recover a stolen gem, but all you want to do is take a nap.

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

7 years

For @LAReviewofBooks , I wrote about a wonderful book describing the place where Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece all meet. Reportage at its best!

Los Angeles Review of Books

@LAReviewofBooks

7 years

"Borders frighten; frontiers entice." @JMikanowski on Kapka Kassabova's BORDER: A Journey to the Edge of Europe:

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1 year

Pictures from one of my favorite Eastern European cultural institutions- the Budapest Restaurant Museum. Featuring historic menus, dioramas, and giant, inexplicable photographs of salami.

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

8 years

Look at this regal little otter! His upraised paws mean he's worshiping the sun. From the Met. Egyptian, c. 664-30 B.C.

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

9 months

I had a blast talking to Zaza about all things Eastern European, including a shared love of Slovenia. Give it a listen here:

The Smart Cookies Podcast

@smartcookiespod

9 months

Though not often discussed, the history of Eastern Europe is absolutely FASCINATING! To prove this point, @JMikanowski published an unputdownable book called "Goodbye Eastern Europe: A History of a Divided Land," which I read (in one go). In the latest episode of SMART COOKIES,

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4 years

1000 years ago, someone dropped a wooden tablet in Old Novgorod. Discovered in 2000, it is now thought to be the oldest Russian book. Painstaking reconstruction has revealed it to be a ‘hyper-palimpsest’ - dozens of texts, written one on top of another in wax, then erased.

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8 years

Baby tapirs are the truth, y'all.

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7 years

So, to become King, Irish chiefs had to fuck a horse, kill it, then climb inside a giant bowl of soup and eat it. I dunno-seems like a lot.

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Jacob Mikanowski

@JMikanowski

7 years

It's here! The paleofeces feature you've been waiting for! Featuring: -moa poop -mastodon poop - sloth poop - lost landscapes -orphaned fruits -burning caves

Reconstructing Lost Worlds With Poop

Ancient dung samples are being used to figure out how the mammoth went extinct and how the Americas were populated.

www.theatlantic.com

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Jacob Mikanowski

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7 years

Re-upping for the weekday crowd: I wrote about Lviv, Galicia, and the lost literature of East European urbanity:

Wine, Olive Oil, and Wisteria: A Sensual Tour of the “City of Lions” | Los Angeles Review of Books

Jacob Mikanowski follows Józef Wittlin through the “City of Lions.”

lareviewofbooks.org

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4 years

Bedside reading

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7 years

This hurts. When @CAAF pulled me out of the slush pile long ago it meant more to me than I can say. Since then, The Awl let me write about crazy artists, revolutions, cults, dreams, birds-all the weirdo stuff I love. RIP to the coolest place on the web.

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6 years

Berkeleyans! Next Tuesday, I'll be at the academy, talking about careers outside the academy.

UC Berkeley Career Diversity for Historians

@history_careers

6 years

On December 4th 4-6pm we will be hosting our final career development event of the semester @UCBHistory - a roundtable discussion on the many careers of historians as writers w/ @ElenaSchneid @sstohla @_harperbole @horbinski @JMikanowski & Karen McNiell! #AHACareerDiversity

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Learned today that there is a Polish board game called "You Weren't Standing There," which simulates the experience of standing in a socialist-era queue. It also comes in "currency speculator" and "people's democracies" versions. I'd love to try any of these.

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1 year

I was thrilled to speak with Eilish and The Naked Pravda about Goodbye, Eastern Europe, and how Russia fits in (or doesn’t) in a changing continent.

Eilish Hart

@EilishHart

1 year

For this week’s episode of The Naked Pravda, I interviewed @JMikanowski about his fascinating new book, “Goodbye, Eastern Europe.” Check it out now on @meduza_en or your podcast platform of choice!

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7 years

During the Vendian period, 575 MYA, the Earth's seas looked like this. What a lonely, soft, squishy period in the Earth's history!

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6 years

Honored to be on this list. Thrilled to be here with friends!

Linda Kinstler

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6 years

Delighted to be in such good company on @gdnlongread ’s best of 2018! Let this list be a reminder not to miss @unkowthe on the wonders of the squatty potty & @jmikanowski on all that is lost upon the English language, among many other excellent pieces:

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A Russian chronicle (c. 1113) on the benefits of reading: "Books are rivers which water the entire world; they are the springs of wisdom; in books there is an unfathomable depth; by them we are consoled in sorrow...He who reads books often converses with God, or with holy men.”

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7 years

I've spent all summer adjuncting for adjuncts, thereby discovering the level of academia directly above 'participant in a sleep study.'

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5 years

Bedside reading

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Exciting mail day today - can't wait to dig into this fabulous history of Soviet atheism by @SmolkinVictoria

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7 years

I wrote about my grandmother, Hungarian New Wave music and the glory days of Napster. With viseos!

Public Books

@PublicBooks

7 years

Tracking the mysterious Hungarian band Trabant through the wilds of the early internet: @JMikanowski

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The Crimean Tatar envoy to Poland Dedesh Agha and his retinue, painted by Daniel Schultz in Warsaw in 1664. (the Agha's son is holding the falcon; the monkey appears to be along for the ride).