UK friends! This Saturday, I will be giving a reading/talk as part of the Oxford Literary Festival. 2 p.m. at the Oxford Martin School. More details here: oxfordliteraryfestival.org/authors-speake…

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Chicago friends! I'll hope you'll join me and the excellent @jakuleczka for a conversation this Thursday at U Chicago's Franke Institute. 4 pm on the 4th, for all who are interested!

For The Chronicle of Higher Education, I wrote about the promise and the perils of studying the deep past: chronicle.com/article/what-w…

Very excited to say that today is the release date of the U.S. paperback edition of Goodbye, Eastern Europe. I love this colorful new cover from Pantheon Books. Available now wherever books are sold!

Had a terrific time talking with the folks at TalkEasternEurope - check out our conversation here:

You can hear me on the radio this weekend talking with the great Rick Steves about Eastern European folklore and my favorite spots in the Balkans - link below…

If you are in Berlin tomorrow, I’m giving a keynote lecture at the Pilecki Institute as part of their Exercising Modernity program. I’ll be speaking about orphan memory - the heritage landscapes left behind by Eastern Europe’s tumultuous 20th century. September 19, at 18:30.

I've got an essay in the new issue of The Point. It's about dentist grandmothers, torture, prison and the odd places memory comes to rest in the body (with plenty on Eastern Europe, of course). Read here: thepointmag.com/examined-life/…

Delighted to see my piece on teeth from The Point republished as a Guardian long read today. Thank you David Wolf and Rachel Wiseman !

For The TLS, I reviewed the biography of a fascinating figure from the last days of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

I don’t know why or how, but the kindle edition of Goodbye, Eastern Europe is now just $2 (and 99p in the UK) - less than a cup of coffee!

For Chronicle Review, I reviewed How the New World Became Old, Caroline Winterer's fascinating new book on 19th Century America's discovery of deep time: chronicle.com/article/scratc…

So exciting to see Goodbye Eastern Europe published in Czech - especially since Nakladatelství HOST did such a wonderful job with the illustrations and graphic design.

Had a great time talking to a fellow Jakub from Radio Prague about all things Eastern European on the occasion of the publication of the Czech edition of GEE.

For Chronicle Review, I wrote about the ongoing replication crisis in psychology, and a new book that tries to make sense of it: chronicle.com/article/how-a-…

Extremely proud to say I have translations of five poems by my favorite living Polish poet - Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki - included in this wonderful new issue of Turkoslavia.

"my mother (locked up in Żurawicza, Węgorzew, Jarosław) always had to belong to someone who she invented imagined or who was introduced to her in dreams..." Words by Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki trans. from Polish Jacob Mikanowski in TUROSLAVIA ISSUE 4: exchanges.uiowa.edu/turkoslavia

Tirana friends! Join me tomorrow at Vila 31, where I will be in conversation with the great Ukrainian artist Stanislava Pinchuk about vampirism, communist legacies and much more.