Stephanie Bastek

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

Bathing Badasses

Vicki Valosik gets submerged in the history of synchronized swimming

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday July 12, 2024

Turning the World to Powder

Jay Owens on the tiny particles that float through our lives

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday June 28, 2024

Indiana Absurd

Tiffany Tsao on translating a beguiling Indonesian short-story collection

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday May 17, 2024

Changing the Lens

Exploding the Canon, Episode 5 (Finale)

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday May 10, 2024

American Modernism’s Lost Boy-King

The late, great Paul Auster on Stephen Crane

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday May 3, 2024

Let Us Compare Mythologies

Exploding the Canon, Episode 4

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday April 26, 2024

Interlude: The Idea of “The West”

A brief look at a grand narrative

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday April 19, 2024

The Spirit of ’68

Exploding the Canon, Episode 3

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday April 12, 2024

Reedies Against Racism

Exploding the Canon, Episode 2

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday April 5, 2024

Sing, Muse

Exploding the Canon, Episode 1

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday March 29, 2024

The Root Cause

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday March 14, 2025

Something New in the West

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday February 28, 2025

Family/History

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday February 14, 2025

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

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