Stephanie Bastek

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

Indiana Absurd

Tiffany Tsao on translating a beguiling Indonesian short-story collection

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday May 17, 2024

Changing the Lens

Exploding the Canon, Episode 5 (Finale)

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday May 10, 2024

American Modernism’s Lost Boy-King

The late, great Paul Auster on Stephen Crane

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday May 3, 2024

Let Us Compare Mythologies

Exploding the Canon, Episode 4

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday April 26, 2024

Interlude: The Idea of “The West”

A brief look at a grand narrative

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday April 19, 2024

The Spirit of ’68

Exploding the Canon, Episode 3

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday April 12, 2024

Reedies Against Racism

Exploding the Canon, Episode 2

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday April 5, 2024

Sing, Muse

Exploding the Canon, Episode 1

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday March 29, 2024

Dancing the Imperial Twist

Julian Saporiti on mixing music with history as No-No Boy

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday August 4, 2023

Dying for Fashion

Dana Thomas on how our hunger for new clothes damages the environment and exploits workers

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday July 28, 2023

Chaucer’s Leading Lady

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday March 3, 2023

The Comic Queen of Metafiction

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday February 24, 2023

Justice, Arrested

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday February 17, 2023

Past is Present

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday February 10, 2023

The Promised Land of the Pampas

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday February 3, 2023

Medieval Madams

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday January 27, 2023

The Sensual Sargent

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday January 20, 2023

Lost in Smog

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday January 13, 2023

Santa’s Slay Bells

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday December 23, 2022

By Land and By Sea

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday December 16, 2022

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