Stephanie Bastek

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

Listening to the Trees

What the forest can teach us about ourselves

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday June 18, 2021

Has Electronic Dance Music Lost Its Soul?

From acid house to deadmau5

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday June 11, 2021

Eat, Pray, Love Like an Ancient

Why we should care about Epicurus

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday June 4, 2021

The Author’s Accomplice

Susan Bernofsky on the art of translation

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday May 28, 2021

Two Parts Gin, One Part Sin

Going back to the Golden Age of cocktails

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday May 21, 2021

Godmother to Poets

An introduction to Muriel Rukeyser

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday May 14, 2021

A Verray, Parfit Gentil Knyght

The first biography of Geoffrey Chaucer in a generation explores the places that inspired the English poet

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday May 7, 2021

Between Science and Séance

The poltergeist that cemented a ghost hunter’s theory about the psyche

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday April 30, 2021

The Lingo of LOLcats

How language is humanity’s most spectacular open-source project

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday April 23, 2021

Caracara, Caw Caw

Meet the smartest bird you’ve never heard of

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday April 16, 2021

Keepers of the Old Ways

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday January 17, 2025

The Snow Maiden

By Stephanie Bastek | Monday December 30, 2024

Ho Ho Horror

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday December 27, 2024

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

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