The Page 99 Test

Karl Gerth is a tutor and fellow at Merton College and an historian of modern Chinese history at Oxford University. His new book is As Chi...

Pauline Maier is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of American History at M.I.T. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1968. ...

Duncan Kelly is a University Senior Lecturer in Political Theory in the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of C...

Giles Whittell is currently the Washington bureau chief for the London Times . He has been based in Times bureaus all over the world, inclu...

Sarahlee Lawrence was born and raised on her family ranch in Terrebonne, Oregon. After a decade spent studying, traveling, river rafting, an...

Jay Kirk 's nonfiction has been published in Harper's , GQ , the New York Times Magazine, and The Nation . His work has been antholo...

Joe Perry is associate professor of modern German and European history at Georgia State University. He applied the “ Page 99 Test ” to h...

Tim Brookes ' books include A Hell of a Place to Lose a Cow (one of the Top Travel Books of 2000–the New York Times and Booklist ), Gu...

Toby E. Huff is Research Associate in the Department of Astronomy at Harvard University (and Chancellor Professor Emeritus in the Departmen...

Louise Shelley is Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center at George Mason Unive...