Stephanie Bastek

Stephanie Bastek is the senior editor of the Scholar and the producer/host of the Smarty Pants podcast.

The Promised Land of the Pampas

Javier Sinay on the forgotten history of the first Jewish immigrants in Argentina

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday March 25, 2022

Sakura Fever

How an English eccentric saved Japan’s beloved cherry trees—and spread them around the world

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday March 18, 2022

The Sound of Science

David George Haskell on the sense biology neglects most

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday March 11, 2022

Normalized Abortion

Tamara Dean on the surprising parallels between 19th- and 21st-century reproductive health

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday March 4, 2022

Immortal by Mistake

Anna Della Subin on the modern mortals who stumbled into the pantheon

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday February 25, 2022

The Frigid Fringe

Bernd Brunner on the icy edge of imagination

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday February 18, 2022

Ode to Antwerp

Michael Pye on the golden age of the city

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday February 11, 2022

Changing How America Eats

Mayukh Sen on seven immigrant cookbook writers

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday February 4, 2022

Murder, He Wrote

John Darnielle on the fiction of true crime

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday January 28, 2022

Strokes of Genius

Jing Tsu on how the Chinese language survived the modern world

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday January 21, 2022

Kinship and Contradictions

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday December 13, 2024

Overconsumed

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday November 29, 2024

American Horror Story

By Stephanie Bastek | Thursday October 31, 2024

The Writing on the Wall

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday October 18, 2024

This Woman’s Work

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday October 4, 2024

Queen of the Night

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday September 20, 2024

A Toothsome Tale

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday September 6, 2024

A Rebel to Remember

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday August 23, 2024

Going for Gold

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday August 9, 2024

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