Stephanie Bastek

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

Once Upon a Time in Manchester

Hopwood DePree on the quest to restore his ancestral English seat

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday June 3, 2022

Bird of America

Jack E. Davis on how we revere and revile the bald eagle

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday May 27, 2022
Illustration of a vintage blue car against a yellow background

Life Is a Highway

Dan Albert on how car culture swallowed America

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday May 20, 2022

Crowdsourced Clairvoyance

Sam Knight on the psychiatrist who tried to predict disaster

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday May 13, 2022

The Intelligence Gatherers

The secret history of how Imperial Russia kept an eye on its Chinese neighbor

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday May 6, 2022

New Name for an Old Ceremony

Gregory Smithers on two-spirits in Indigenous American history

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday April 29, 2022

Indiana Absurd

Tiffany Tsao on translating a beguiling Indonesian short-story collection

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday April 22, 2022

Portrait as Performance

Meet the Tudor characters that populated Hans Holbein’s world

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday April 15, 2022

Hashtag Lit

Leah Price on how books were social media all along

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday April 8, 2022

No Place Is Perfect

Adrian Shirk on the search for American utopia

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday April 1, 2022

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

A Rebel to Remember

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday August 23, 2024

Going for Gold

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday August 9, 2024

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