Stephanie Bastek

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

All the Rage

Enlightenment, architecture, and a few Irish favorites

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday March 17, 2017

Unlikely Encounters

Between fact and fiction, poetry and motion, and Milton Friedman and China’s General Secretary

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday March 3, 2017

Red: The History of a Color

Read an excerpt from Michel Pastoureau’s new book about the color of love and rage

By Stephanie Bastek | Tuesday February 14, 2017

From Côte d’Ivoire to the California Coast

Plus: Phillip Lopate tells us a secret

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday February 10, 2017

Portraits of a Movement

Plus: our new visual arts blog, and a tour of Trump’s conflict of interest

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday January 27, 2017

Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery

Read an excerpt from Jonathan Lamb’s new book about every sailor’s favorite ailment

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday December 16, 2016

Sounds Like a Revolution

An interview with Madeleine Thien, plus: catching up with Jessica Love on language

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday December 16, 2016

Krazy

Read an excerpt from Michael Tisserand’s new biography of George Herriman

By Stephanie Bastek | Thursday December 8, 2016

The Aftermath

Finding hope in unexpected places: prison, protest, and poetry

By Stephanie Bastek | Tuesday November 22, 2016

Fighting the Zika Virus with John Wayne (and John Aubrey)

Well, not exactly

By Stephanie Bastek | Monday November 7, 2016

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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