Stephanie Bastek

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

American Horror Story

Jeremy Dauber on our obsession with fear

By Stephanie Bastek | Thursday October 31, 2024

The Writing on the Wall

Augustine Sedgewick on his discovery of Henry David Thoreau’s connection to slavery

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday October 18, 2024

This Woman’s Work

Susannah Gibson opens the parlor doors on 18th-century feminism

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday October 4, 2024

Queen of the Night

Leigh Ann Henion embraces the creatures that light up the dark

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday September 20, 2024

A Toothsome Tale

Bill Schutt chomps through millennia to share the story of our pearly whites

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday September 6, 2024

A Rebel to Remember

Gregory P. Downs on the late Anthony E. Kaye’s groundbreaking history of Nat Turner

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday August 23, 2024

Going for Gold

Joshua Prager on a forgotten Olympic gymnast whose 1904 record still hasn’t been beaten

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday August 9, 2024

Paradise Reclaimed

Olivia Laing on the dark histories and utopian dreams of the flower bed

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday July 26, 2024

Femmes Fantastiques

Mickalene Thomas and the art of remixing

By Stephanie Bastek | Thursday July 25, 2024

Bathing Badasses

Vicki Valosik gets submerged in the history of synchronized swimming

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday July 12, 2024

Turning the World to Powder

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday June 28, 2024

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

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