Jacob Mikanowski

About The Author

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.

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