Stephanie Bastek

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

Hamburgers in Paradise

Read an excerpt from Louise O. Fresco’s new book about the story of food

By Stephanie Bastek | Tuesday December 8, 2015

Database of Dreams

Read an excerpt from Rebecca Lemov’s new book about the prehistory of Big Data

By Stephanie Bastek | Tuesday November 24, 2015

The White Road

Read an excerpt from Edmund de Waal’s new book about porcelain

By Stephanie Bastek | Wednesday November 18, 2015

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 Shipping News

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday May 9, 2025

Coming Home

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday April 25, 2025

Muscle Memory

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday April 11, 2025

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

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