Stephanie Bastek

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

Overconsumed

Adam Minter on what happens to all the stuff we downsize, declutter, and discard

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday November 29, 2024

Fiction, Fakery, and Factory Farming

Spanish novelist Munir Hachemi talks about Living Things

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday November 15, 2024

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

No-No-Novel

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday June 2, 2023

Lines from the Front

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday May 19, 2023

Losing the Lot

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday May 12, 2023

A Home in Chinatown

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday April 28, 2023

Listening to the Dead

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday April 21, 2023

That Time of the Month

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday April 14, 2023

Twenty Years of War

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday April 7, 2023

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