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

Wednesday, November 26, 2025

John Edward Huth's "A Sense of Space"

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John Edward Huth is the Donner Professor of Science at Harvard University. He has done research in experimental particle physics since 1980...
Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Rob Miller's "The Hours Are Long, But the Pay Is Low"

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Rob Miller is the cofounder and former co-owner of Bloodshot Records. He applied the “ Page 99 Test ” to his new book, The Hours Are Long,...
Sunday, November 23, 2025

Arnoud S. Q. Visser's "On Pedantry"

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Arnoud S. Q. Visser is professor of textual culture in the Renaissance at Utrecht University and director of the Huizinga Institute, the Du...
Saturday, November 22, 2025

Edward Hall's "Power and Powerlessness"

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Edward Hall is a Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Sheffield. He works on three main research areas: political ethic...
Friday, November 21, 2025

Jonathan S. Jones's "Opium Slavery"

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Jonathan S. Jones , an assistant professor of history at James Madison University, is a historian of the United States Civil War and Reconst...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Justin Randolph's "Mississippi Law"

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Justin Randolph is Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University, where he teaches nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. history. His wo...
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Matthew Mason's "Seeking the High Ground"

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Matthew Mason is Professor of History at Brigham Young University and the author of Slavery and Politics in the Early American Republic . ...
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Edward E. Andrews's "Newport Gardner's Anthem"

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Edward E. Andrews is a Professor in The Department of History and Classics at Providence College. A scholar of early American history, his ...
Monday, November 17, 2025

Pamela Walker Laird's "Self-Made"

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Pamela Walker Laird is Professor Emerita of History at the University of Colorado Denver. Her publications include Pull: Networking and Suc...
Sunday, November 16, 2025

Gerard N. Magliocca's "The Actual Art of Governing"

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Gerard N. Magliocca is Distinguished Professor and Lawrence A. Jegen III Professor at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of L...
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