The Page 99 Test

"Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you." --Ford Madox Ford

Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Theodore M. Porter's "Genetics in the Madhouse"

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Theodore M. Porter , a historian of science at UCLA, has spent much of his career researching and writing on the uses of numbers, statistic...
Sunday, July 29, 2018

Robert W. Fieseler's "Tinderbox"

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Robert W. Fieseler is a journalist and nonfiction author who currently resides in Boston. He graduated co-valedictorian from the Columbia U...
Friday, July 27, 2018

Kristján Kristjánsson's "Virtuous Emotions"

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Kristján Kristjánsson is Deputy Director in the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues and Professor of Character Education and Virtue Et...
Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Michèle Mendelssohn's "Making Oscar Wilde"

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Michèle Mendelssohn is a literary critic and cultural historian. She is Associate Professor of English Literature at Oxford University. S...
Monday, July 23, 2018

Kenneth A. Reinert's "No Small Hope"

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Kenneth A. Reinert is Professor of Public Policy in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. He is author of A...
Saturday, July 21, 2018

Sheila Murnaghan and Deborah H. Roberts's "Childhood and the Classics"

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Sheila Murnaghan is the Alfred Reginald Allen Memorial Professor of Greek at the University of Pennsylvania. Deborah H. Roberts is the Wil...
Thursday, July 19, 2018

Amy Carney's "Marriage and Fatherhood in the Nazi SS"

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Amy Carney received her PhD in modern German History from Florida State University in 2010. She is currently an Associate Professor of His...
Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Christopher Grasso's "Skepticism and American Faith"

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Christopher Grasso is professor of history at the College of William and Mary and was the editor of the William and Mary Quarterly . He is ...
Monday, July 16, 2018

Randi Hutter Epstein's "Aroused"

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Randi Hutter Epstein is a medical writer, lecturer at Yale University, Writer in Residence at Yale Medical School, and an adjunct professo...
Saturday, July 14, 2018

John M. Coggeshall's "Liberia, South Carolina"

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John M. Coggeshall is professor of anthropology at Clemson University. He applied the “ Page 99 Test ” to his new book, Liberia, South C...
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