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

Sunday, February 1, 2026

Daniel K. Williams's "The Search for a Rational Faith"

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Daniel K. Williams is a historian of American religion and politics who is currently an associate professor of history at Ashland Universit...
Saturday, January 31, 2026

Kent Lehnhof's "Voice and Ethics in Shakespeare's Late Plays"

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Kent Lehnhof is Professor of English at Chapman University, where he has received the university's highest award for scholarship and i...
Friday, January 30, 2026

Michelle Pace's "Un-welcome to Denmark"

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Michelle Pace is Professor in Global Studies based in Roskilde, Denmark. Her new book is Un-welcome to Denmark: The paradigm shift and ref...
Thursday, January 29, 2026

Emily Lieb's "Road to Nowhere"

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Emily Lieb is an historian of U.S. cities, schools, and segregation. She has a PhD from Columbia and an AB from Brown, and she taught histo...
Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Lydia Murdoch's "What We Mourn"

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Lydia Murdoch is Professor of History at Vassar College and the author of Daily Life of Victorian Women . She applied the “ Page 99 Test ”...
Monday, January 26, 2026

Samuele Collu's "Into the Loop"

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Samuele Collu is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at McGill University. He applied the “ Page 99 Test ” to his new book, Into the Loop:...
Sunday, January 25, 2026

Laura Carney's "My Father's List"

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A writer and magazine copy editor in New York, Laura Carney has been published by the Washington Post , the Associated Press, The Hill , Ru...
Saturday, January 24, 2026

Eran Shalev's "The Star-Spangled Republic"

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Eran Shalev is Professor of History at Haifa University and the author of Rome Reborn on Western Shores: Historical Imagination and the Cre...
Friday, January 23, 2026

Andrew K. Scherer's "As the Gods Kill"

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Andrew K. Scherer is Pierre & Patricia Bikai Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology & the Ancient World, and Director of Joukow...
Thursday, January 22, 2026

Edward Baring's "Vulgar Marxism"

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Edward Baring is professor of history and human values at Princeton University. He is the author of Converts to the Real and The Young Der...
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