Jacob Mikanowski lives in Portland, Ore., and is the author of Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land (Pantheon, 2023).
Stories by This Author
The Review | Essay
The discovery of ‘deep time’ in 19th-century America.
The Review | Essay
Harvey Whitehouse’s overambitious new book.
The Review | Essay
Two new books take very different approaches to the study of humanity’s origins.
The Review | Essay
How Omer Bartov thinks about the Israel-Hamas conflict.
The Review | Essay
Two new books model radically different ways of studying the past.
The Review
The Yale historian warns about the risk of totalitarianism under Trump. That’s great for selling books — but scholars are alarmed.
The Review
Its conditions eerily reflect those of 19th-century Hapsburg army officers.
The Review
In the Anthropocene, historians might chronicle the end of their species.
The Chronicle Review
We enroll to catch fleeting feelings of exaltation.