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

Saturday, October 31, 2026

danah boyd's "Data Are Made, Not Found"

›
danah boyd is the Geri Gay Professor of Communication at Cornell University, where she works on topics at the intersection of technology an...
Thursday, October 29, 2026

Sarah Marsh's "Novel Constitutions and the Making of Race"

›
Sarah Marsh is Associate Professor of English at Seton Hill University. A scholar of anglophone literature and culture of the long eighteen...
Tuesday, October 27, 2026

Michael B. Cosmopoulos's "Rediscovering Homer"

›
Michael B. Cosmopoulos is the Hellenic Government-Karakas Foundation Professor in Greek Studies at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. A ...
Monday, October 26, 2026

Bryant Simon's "For Customers Only"

›
Bryant Simon is the Laura H. Carnell Professor of History and the academic chair of the honors program at Temple University. He is the aut...
Saturday, October 24, 2026

Eric Caplan's "When Healing Harms"

›
Eric Caplan is author of Mind Games: American Culture and the Birth of Psychotherapy and recipient of the University of Chicago's Quan...
Thursday, October 22, 2026

Barbara Young Welke's "Writing with Fire"

›
Barbara Young Welke is the Distinguished McKnight University Professor of history and law at the University of Minnesota. She is the author...
Wednesday, October 21, 2026

Livia K. Stone's "Without Masters"

›
Livia K. Stone is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Illinois State University and author of Atenco Lives!: Filmmaking and Popular Stru...
Monday, October 19, 2026

Kevin Waite's "The Boundless Biddy Mason"

›
Kevin Waite is Anne Stark Watson and Chester Watson Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Texas at Dallas. His first book...
Saturday, October 17, 2026

Scot McFarlane's "The River That Made Texas"

›
Scot McFarlane is a river historian and founder of the Oxbow History Company. He applied the “ Page 99 Test ” to his new book, The River T...
Thursday, October 15, 2026

Samantha Barbas's "Hate Speech"

›
Samantha Barbas is a legal and cultural historian and the author of several books on media history and legal history topics, with a focus o...
›
Home
View web version
Powered by Blogger.