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, January 30, 2016

Phaedra Daipha's "Masters of Uncertainty"

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Phaedra Daipha is assistant professor of sociology at Rutgers University. She applied the “ Page 99 Test ” to her new book, Masters of Un...
Thursday, January 28, 2016

Kyle Smith's "Constantine and the Captive Christians of Persia"

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Kyle Smith is Assistant Professor of Historical Studies and Religion at the University of Toronto and the translator of The Martyrdom and H...
Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Rebecca Mitchell's "Nietzsche’s Orphans"

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Rebecca Mitchell is assistant professor of history at Middlebury College. She applied the “ Page 99 Test ” to her new book, Nietzsche...
Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Alexandra Shepard's "Accounting for Oneself"

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Alexandra Shepard is Professor of Gender History at the University of Glasgow. She has published widely on gender and social relations in e...
Sunday, January 24, 2016

Christopher Stevens's "Written In Stone"

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Christopher Stevens is a writer and journalist. His runaway bestselling mnemonics book Thirty Days Has September hit the number-one refere...
Saturday, January 23, 2016

Lori A. Flores's "Grounds for Dreaming"

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Lori Flores is assistant professor of history at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She applied the “ Page 99 Test ” to her...
Thursday, January 21, 2016

Megan Pugh's "America Dancing"

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Megan Pugh is a critic and poet living in Portland, Oregon, where she teaches at Lewis and Clark College. Her writing has appeared in The B...
Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Daniel K. Williams's "Defenders of the Unborn"

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Daniel K. Williams is an associate professor of history at the University of West Georgia. He is the author of God’s Own Party: The Making ...
Sunday, January 17, 2016

Serhii Plokhy's "The Gates of Europe"

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Serhii Plokhy is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University. A three-time recipient of the American Ass...
Friday, January 15, 2016

Elaine Frantz Parsons's "Ku-Klux: The Birth of the Klan during Reconstruction"

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Elaine Frantz Parsons is associate professor of history at Duquesne University. She applied the “ Page 99 Test ” to her new book, Ku-Klux...
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