Stephanie Bastek

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

Imagined Cuisines

Anya von Bremzen on what makes a “national dish”

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday June 23, 2023

What Could Be Wurst?

Jamie Loftus on the wild American world of hot dogs

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday June 16, 2023

Why the West Won’t Die

Naoíse Mac Sweeney on writing a different kind of “big history” book

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday June 9, 2023

No-No-Novel

Resurrecting the legacy of John Okada, the first Japanese-American novelist

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday June 2, 2023

Music to Have Revelations To

Small Fools on the band’s brand of “cosmic bardcore”

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday May 26, 2023

Lines from the Front

Carolyn Forché on a wartime anthology of Ukrainian poetry

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday May 19, 2023

Losing the Lot

Henry Grabar on what parking has done to us

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday May 12, 2023

The Pacifist and the Battlefield

Chad Williams on W. E. B Du Bois’s reckoning with World War I and Black liberation

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday May 5, 2023

A Home in Chinatown

Ava Chin on tracing five generations of Chinese-American history

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday April 28, 2023

Listening to the Dead

Alexa Hagerty on how forensic anthropology exhumes crimes against humanity

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday April 21, 2023

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

Queen of the Night

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday September 20, 2024

A Toothsome Tale

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday September 6, 2024

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