Stephanie Bastek

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

Getting Screwed

Read an excerpt from Alison Bass’s new book on sex workers and the law

By Stephanie Bastek | Monday November 9, 2015

The Mushroom at the End of the World

An excerpt from Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing’s new book about life in ecological crisis

By Stephanie Bastek | Tuesday October 27, 2015

A Field Philosopher’s Guide to Fracking

A brief excerpt from Adam Briggle’s new book about fighting Big Oil in Texas

By Stephanie Bastek | Tuesday October 20, 2015

Workshops of Empire

A brief excerpt from Eric Bennett’s new book about creative writing and the Cold War

By Stephanie Bastek | Tuesday October 13, 2015

Changing the Subject

An excerpt from Sven Birkerts’s latest book about art in the Internet age

By Stephanie Bastek | Wednesday October 7, 2015

Strangers Drowning

A brief excerpt from Larissa MacFarquhar’s new book about extreme virtue

By Stephanie Bastek | Tuesday September 29, 2015

The Invention of Nature

A brief excerpt from Andrea Wulf’s new book about Alexander von Humboldt

By Stephanie Bastek | Tuesday September 22, 2015

A Strange Business

A brief excerpt from James Hamilton’s new history of art dealership

By Stephanie Bastek | Monday September 14, 2015

South Toward Home

A brief excerpt from a new book by Margaret Eby

By Stephanie Bastek | Wednesday September 9, 2015

Indiana Absurd

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday May 17, 2024

Changing the Lens

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday May 10, 2024

Let Us Compare Mythologies

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday April 26, 2024

The Spirit of ’68

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday April 12, 2024

Reedies Against Racism

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday April 5, 2024

Sing, Muse

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday March 29, 2024

Dancing the Imperial Twist

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday August 4, 2023

Dying for Fashion

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday July 28, 2023

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