Stephanie Bastek

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

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

A Victorian Mystery No More

By Stephanie Bastek | Monday September 7, 2015

Latest Readings

A brief excerpt from Clive James’s new collection of essays

By Stephanie Bastek | Tuesday September 1, 2015

Pedigree

A brief excerpt from Nobel prizewinner Patrick Modiano’s memoir

By Stephanie Bastek | Tuesday August 25, 2015

Mindware

A brief excerpt from Richard E. Nisbett’s new book

By Stephanie Bastek | Thursday August 20, 2015

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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