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, November 17, 2013

Stephen V. Ash's "A Massacre in Memphis"

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Stephen V. Ash is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Tennessee. He is the author of Firebrand of Liberty , A Year in the ...
Friday, November 15, 2013

Erik Dussere's "America Is Elsewhere"

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Erik Dussere is Associate Professor of Literature at American University. He is the author of Balancing the Books: Faulkner, Morrison, and...
Thursday, November 14, 2013

Robert Bartlett's "Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things?"

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Robert Bartlett is the Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Mediaeval History at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and a fellow of the Briti...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Molly Worthen's "Apostles of Reason"

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Molly Worthen is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of The Man on Whom No...
Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Jonathan Scott Holloway's "Jim Crow Wisdom"

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Jonathan Scott Holloway is professor of history, African American studies, and American studies at Yale University. He applied the “Page ...
Monday, November 11, 2013

"Jews and the Military"

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Derek J. Penslar is the Samuel Zacks Professor of Jewish History at the University of Toronto and the Stanley Lewis Professor of Israel Stu...
Sunday, November 10, 2013

J .J. Carney's "Rwanda Before the Genocide"

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J.J. Carney is Assistant Professor of Theology at Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska. His research and teaching interests engage the t...
Saturday, November 9, 2013

Caroline Vout's "Sex on Show"

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Caroline Vout is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Christ’s College. In 2008 she was awarded the p...
Friday, November 8, 2013

Lara Deeb and Mona Harb's "Leisurely Islam"

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Lara Deeb is associate professor of anthropology at Scripps College and the author of An Enchanted Modern . Mona Harb is associate profess...
Thursday, November 7, 2013

David Hendy's "Noise: A Human History of Sound and Listening"

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David Hendy is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Professor of Media and Communications at the University of Sussex. He has been ...
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