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Scott W. Stern @scottwstern.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Check out my latest in @theatlantic.com - a review of Frenchman Flat (@harvardpress.bsky.social)! It's a major new history of nuclear bombs and illustrates the importance of secrecy to nuclear stockpiles - and why the bomb is "bad for democracy." www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...

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Why the Bomb Is Bad for Democracy

A famous documentarian’s new book suggests that secrecy is a major impediment to sensible nuclear policy.

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

"A world too austere for art is impoverished in more than one sense." @scottwstern.bsky.social on the field of fictional character biographies: lareviewofbooks.org/article/fiction…

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Charlie O'Malley @charlesomalley.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

@scottwstern.bsky.social wrote about our book and the idea of the "character biography" for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social !! check it out !!

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Scott W. Stern @scottwstern.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Check out my latest in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, on a recent boomlet in "biographies" of fictional characters!! Thanks to @sayanniething.bsky.social for the fabulous edits!!

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Jenny Yacovissi @jbywrites.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Adding to my tottering TBR stack, given Bob Duffy's sterling review. Authors @scottwstern.bsky.social and @charlesomalley.bsky.social dive into Shakespeare's fascination with "ambitious, adulterous, aggressive" Margaret through 4 plays, giving her more lines than King Lear. @wirobooks.bsky.social

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Scott W. Stern @scottwstern.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

A rave!!! “An enthralling and magisterially researched theatrical history … For both lay enthusiasts and the most demanding intellectuals, the book is a marvel of well-supported analysis and discussion.”

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Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

What fun to talk with @charlesomalley.bsky.social and @scottwstern.bsky.social about how they navigated sharing a writing project and a life, and the fabulous book, SHAKESPEARE'S MARGARET (@wwnorton.com) that resulted. Listen to our conversation here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

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Charles O'Malley and Scott Stern Collaborate On A Book and A Life

Podcast Episode · Drafting the Past · June 23 · 52m

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Charlie O'Malley @charlesomalley.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

as the kids say, no choice but to stan

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Folger Shakespeare Library @folger.edu · 04/06/2026

Margaret of Anjou provides insight into Shakespeare’s understanding of gender and sexuality. In "Shakespeare's Margaret: The Dramatic Life of a Warrior Queen, @charlesomalley.bsky.social and @scottwstern.bsky.social track the evolution of her portrayal. Excerpt here: www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...

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Shakespeare's Margaret in Honduras | Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...

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Charlie O'Malley @charlesomalley.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

SHAKESPEARE'S MARGARET is out today! @scottwstern.bsky.social and I are really proud of this project, which we've jokingly called our third child. Buy your copy today! wwnorton.com/books/978132...

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Scott W. Stern @scottwstern.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

SHAKESPEARE’S MARGARET (by @charlesomalley.bsky.social and yours truly) is out from @wwnorton.com in ONE WEEK (June 2)!! Please consider preordering! wwnorton.com/books/978132...

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Scott W. Stern @scottwstern.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Book tour!!! Come hear @charlesomalley.bsky.social and me talk about Shakespeare’s Margaret, out from @wwnorton.com on June 2!

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Charlie O'Malley @charlesomalley.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Author copies are here! SHAKESPEARE'S MARGARET drops Jun. 2 - preorder now pls and thnx ☺️ wwnorton.com/books/978132... @scottwstern.bsky.social

Copies of the book Shakespeare's Margaret

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

For a brief period in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Texas had a populist environmental movement, led not by elite conservationists or representatives from national green groups but working-class activists, writes @scottwstern.bsky.social @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...

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‘Go Out and Sue a Polluter’ | Scott W. Stern

Shortly before Christmas in 1969 a dense fog rolled in across the bayous of the Texas Gulf Coast. For more than four days it blanketed a vast region, as

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Charlie O'Malley @charlesomalley.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

new from @scottwstern.bsky.social on the origins of environmental justice in texas for @nybooks.com

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Scott W. Stern @scottwstern.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

My stab at a usable history of our environmental present - plz read!!

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Kevin Sanchez @captswing.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

“What this movement is saying is that the right to breathe clean air, drink clean water, and live in a community that is not contaminated should be a right all of us enjoy.” -- Robert Bullard, 1991 www.nybooks.com/online/2026/... via @scottwstern.bsky.social & @nybooks.com #EnvironmentalJustice

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‘Go Out and Sue a Polluter’ | Scott W. Stern

Shortly before Christmas in 1969 a dense fog rolled in across the bayous of the Texas Gulf Coast. For more than four days it blanketed a vast region, as

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Scott W. Stern @scottwstern.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

So pleased to share my latest in @nybooks.com, a deep dive into the history of "a working-class, populist environmental movement" in Texas. The piece draws on years of archival work, but I hope it's illuminating for our present. www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...

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‘Go Out and Sue a Polluter’ | Scott W. Stern

Shortly before Christmas in 1969 a dense fog rolled in across the bayous of the Texas Gulf Coast. For more than four days it blanketed a vast region, as

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The Isaac Who Came In From the Butler @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Charles O’Malley and @scottwstern.bsky.social had such a great idea for a book! Can’t wait to dive in.

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Charlie O'Malley @charlesomalley.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

SHAKESPEARE'S MARGARET has its first review, from @publisherswkly.bsky.social!!! "O’Malley and Stern ingeniously probe the sweep of Shakespearean history ... The result is a fascinating biography of a singular character and a revealing commentary on theater’s power to evolve with the times."

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Shakespeare’s Margaret: The Dramatic Life of A Warrior Queen by undefined

Theater critic O’Malley (editor of Toward a Just Pedagogy of Performance) and lawyer Stern (The Trials of Nina McCall) assemble ...

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

This sounds like an ad, but it's about murder.

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Scott W. Stern @scottwstern.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

The first review of SHAKESPEARE'S MARGARET (@wwnorton.com) is out in @publisherswkly.bsky.social, and it's a RAVE! "Enthralling ... A fascinating biography of a singular character and a revealing commentary on theater’s power to evolve with the times." www.publishersweekly.com/9781324076551

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Shakespeare’s Margaret: The Dramatic Life of A Warrior Queen by undefined

Theater critic O’Malley (editor of Toward a Just Pedagogy of Performance) and lawyer Stern (The Trials of Nina McCall) assemble ...

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Charlie O'Malley @charlesomalley.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

in just the past few years, the bay area has welcomed three fantastic new outlets: @oaklandside.org @oaklandreviewofbooks.org AND @bayareacurrent.bsky.social they are wonderful and we should support them !!

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Jake Levitan @jlev.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Never ceases to amaze and inspire me that @scottwstern.bsky.social writes like he does on top of working full-time as an environmental lawyer

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

This from @andreapitzer.bsky.social is key. “nobody sane now thinks the answer to abuses at Dachau was to give the guards more training.”

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Charlie O'Malley @charlesomalley.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

SHAKESPEARE'S MARGARET, the book i wrote with my co-conspirator / husband @scottwstern.bsky.social, is coming out 2 june 2026 from @wwnorton.com! take a look at the book page linked below and place those preorders! we're traveling in june to promote the book; hope to see some of you on the road 😎

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Scott W. Stern @scottwstern.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Y'all, @charlesomalley.bsky.social and my book, SHAKESPEARE'S MARGARET, comes out on June 2!!! Please please please consider preordering - it honestly makes a huge difference!! wwnorton.com/books/978132...

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 14/01/2026

International environmental law has floundered in the face of the global climate crisis and cannot hold our worst actors to account. In our new issue, @scottwstern.bsky.social traces the problems back to the 1972 UN Conference that put us on this trajectory.

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Earth, Bound | Scott W. Stern

The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in 1972 marked the birth of international environmental law. It was moribund from the start.

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Scott W. Stern @scottwstern.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

“Where once [universities] shook their heads at the naivete of the students whose chants asked them how many kids they’d killed today, now they are practically submitting their tallies to the DOD, one last desperate gambit to maintain the status quo.” jewishcurrents.org/higher-eds-b...

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Higher Ed's Bad Bargain

To salvage academic freedom amid Trump’s attacks, universities must break from their Cold War compromise with US militarism.

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Scott W. Stern @scottwstern.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Check out my latest in @thebaffler.com! A deep, deep dive into the tragic history of international environmental law - and why it "offers a singularly straightforward parable for the tragic limitations of the law." thebaffler.com/salvos/earth...

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Earth, Bound | Scott W. Stern

The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in 1972 marked the birth of international environmental law. It was moribund from the start.

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Scott W. Stern @scottwstern.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Check out my latest in The Baffler!!! On the "tragedy of international environmental law" (a subject that, tragically, is only growing more relevant by the day...)

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Scott W. Stern @scottwstern.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Check out my latest in @newrepublic.com - a double review of two incisive new books (AIDS IN THE HEARTLAND and FROM VICE TO NICE, both @uncpress.bsky.social) chronicling the histories of HIV/AIDS far from NYC or SF - in places like Kansas and Minneapolis. newrepublic.com/article/2004...

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How the Heartland Responded to AIDS and Shaped Queer Politics

Histories of the epidemic tend to focus on coastal cities, but the response was very different in the middle of the country.

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Scott W. Stern @scottwstern.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

"The United States and its satellites, having taken the centre stage of history to great fanfare after the fall of the Soviet Union, are now exiting in disgrace." This looks like a promising new publication. www.equator.org

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equator

A new world is emerging from the ruins of the liberal order. But the West’s prestigious publications are ill-equipped to comprehend its challenges – and its possibilities. Enter Equator, an internatio...

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Scott W. Stern @scottwstern.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

This is a massive story that the U.S. press is almost entirely ignoring. A week ago, union dockworkers warned this would happen: “If we lose contact with the boats, even for twenty minutes, we’ll shut down all of Europe.” www.politico.eu/article/ital...

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Mass protests and strikes for Gaza bring Italy to a standstill

Roads and ports were blocked and schools closed after unions called for general strike over Israel’s war on Gaza.

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Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Thrilled to see this review of EXTRACTION by @scottwstern.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com. A very thorough essay that situates the book in broader debates about mining, the energy transition, the history of global capitalism, and the possible green futures ahead www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...

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Scott W. Stern @scottwstern.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Check out my latest in @theatlantic.com, wherein I review EXTRACTION (@wwnorton.com), a dazzling new book by @triofrancos.bsky.social. I argue that it is "by far the most clear-eyed of mining’s many recent chronicles." www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...

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The Costs of the Green Transition

A new book argues that simply replacing fossil-fuel extraction with critical-mineral mining is no way out of the climate crisis.

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Scott W. Stern @scottwstern.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

"A literature which is made by machines, which are owned by corporations, which are run by sociopaths, can only be a 'stereotype' — a simplification, a facsimile, an insult, a fake — of real literature. It should be smashed, and can." www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

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Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 29/09/2025

“Of all the women incarcerated worldwide, one in four is imprisoned in the US. Over the past four decades, the number of women in state prisons has grown by almost 600 percent.” — @scottwstern.bsky.social

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Writing Their Prison’s History | Scott W. Stern

A recent study by a group of incarcerated scholars at Indiana Women’s Prison reveals how progressive reforms turned into profitable abuse.

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 27/09/2025

“The members of the Indiana Women’s Prison History Project demolish many of the myths surrounding the institution, proving that its founders…were far more abusive than conventional accounts suggest.” — @scottwstern.bsky.social

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Writing Their Prison’s History | Scott W. Stern

A recent study by a group of incarcerated scholars at Indiana Women’s Prison reveals how progressive reforms turned into profitable abuse.

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Charlie O'Malley @charlesomalley.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

check out scott's latest in @nybooks.com -- reviewing a history of a women's prison in indiana written by those currently incarcerated there. beautifully written and devastating. in the oct. 9 print edition!

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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Writing Their Prison’s History: A recent study by a group of incarcerated scholars at Indiana Women’s Prison reveals how progressive reforms turned into profitable abuse. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

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Writing Their Prison’s History | Scott W. Stern

A recent study by a group of incarcerated scholars at Indiana Women’s Prison reveals how progressive reforms turned into profitable abuse.

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Scott W. Stern @scottwstern.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Check out my latest in @nybooks.com! It's a review of a brilliant book - a history of the nation's oldest women's prison, written by inmates in that same prison. It was a true privilege to engage with their scholarship. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

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Scott W. Stern @scottwstern.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

"It seems western leaders have summoned precisely enough political will to fail to stop a world-historic crime." nymag.com/intelligence...

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The Gaza Breaking Point

Political consensus is rapidly shifting as famine looms and Israel escalates.

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