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, May 2, 2026

Lauren Nicole Henley's "Inquisition for Blood"

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Lauren Nicole Henley is an assistant professor in the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond. She earned her PhD...
Thursday, April 30, 2026

Caroline Sharples's "The Long Death of Adolf Hitler"

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Caroline Sharples is senior lecturer in history at the University of Roehampton. She is the author of West Germans and the Nazi Legacy and...
Tuesday, April 28, 2026

Dale J. Stahl's "Two Rivers Entangled"

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Dale J. Stahl is Associate Professor of History at the University of Colorado Denver. He applied the “ Page 99 Test ” to his latest book, ...
Monday, April 27, 2026

Richard Elwes's "Huge Numbers"

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Richard Elwes is an associate professor at University of Leeds, and a Holgate Session Leader for the London Mathematical Society. He appl...
Sunday, April 26, 2026

Benjamin A. Saltzman's "Turning Away"

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Benjamin A. Saltzman is associate professor of English at the University of Chicago, where he coedits the journal Modern Philology . Saltzm...
Friday, April 24, 2026

Curtis Dozier's "The White Pedestal"

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Curtis Dozier is associate professor of Greek and Roman studies at Vassar College. He is the director of the internationally recognized web...
Thursday, April 23, 2026

Craig Fehrman's "This Vast Enterprise"

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Craig Fehrman , a journalist and historian, spent five years writing and researching his new book, This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Le...
Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Eamonn Gearon's "The Arab Bureau"

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Eamonn Gearon is a global historian, specializing in the Middle East and North Africa and the history of intelligence, whose books include ...
Monday, April 20, 2026

Sandrine Bergès's "No Place Like Home"

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Sandrine Bergès is Professor of Philosophy at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey and British Academy Global Professor at University of Yo...
Sunday, April 19, 2026

Paula Davis Hoffman's "Making the Miami Cubanita"

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Paula Davis Hoffman is an adjunct professor of history at Houston City College. She applied the " Page 99 Test " to her new bo...
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