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

Thursday, November 23, 2017

Daniel Siemens's "Stormtroopers"

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Daniel Siemens is professor of European history at Newcastle University. His new book is Stormtroopers: A New History of Hitler's Brown...
Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Jeanne Guillemin's "Hidden Atrocities"

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Jeanne Guillemin is senior advisor at the Security Studies Program in the MIT Center for International Studies. Her books include Anthrax:...
Monday, November 20, 2017

Elizabeth L Silver's "The Tincture of Time"

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Elizabeth L Silver is the author of the memoir, The Tincture of Time: A Memoir of (Medical) Uncertainty , and the critically acclaimed nove...
Saturday, November 18, 2017

Padraic Kenney's "Dance in Chains"

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Padraic Kenney is Professor of History and International Studies at Indiana University, He applied the “ Page 99 Test ” to his new book, ...
Thursday, November 16, 2017

Stephen R. Bown's "Island of the Blue Foxes"

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Stephen R. Bown is a critically acclaimed author of several literary non-fiction books on the history of science, exploration and ideas. ...
Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Kelley Fanto Deetz's "Bound to the Fire"

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Historical archaeologist and historian Kelley Fanto Deetz is a research associate at the James River Institute for Archaeology, and a Visiti...
Sunday, November 12, 2017

Helen Fry's "The London Cage"

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Historian and biographer Helen Fry is the author of more than twenty books focusing mainly on intelligence, prisoners of war, and the socia...
Friday, November 10, 2017

Cathy Gere's "Pain, Pleasure, and the Greater Good"

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Cathy Gere is associate professor of history at the University of California, San Diego, and the author of Knossos and the Prophets of Mode...
Thursday, November 9, 2017

Kevin Carrico's "The Great Han"

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Kevin Carrico is Lecturer in the Department of International Studies at Macquarie University and the translator of Tsering Woeser’s Tibet o...
Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Randolph Lewis's "Under Surveillance"

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Randolph Lewis is a professor of American studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He has written extensively on how visual culture sh...
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