"A world too austere for art is impoverished in more than one sense." @scottwstern.bsky.social on the field of fictional character biographies: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/fictional-character-biographies-shakespeare-margaret-hannibal-juliet-bigger/

Character Study | Los Angeles Review of Books

The burgeoning field of fiction character biographies.

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"A world too austere for art is impoverished in more than one sense." @scottwstern.bsky.social on the field of fictional character biographies: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/fictional-character-biographies-shakespeare-margaret-hannibal-juliet-bigger/

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

Los Angeles Review of Books@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · last wk.

“What does it mean to write a ‘biography’ of someone who never existed?” @scottwstern.bsky.social on fictional character biographies: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/fictional-character-biographies-shakespeare-margaret-hannibal-juliet-bigger/

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!!

Los Angeles Review of Books@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · last wk.

“What does it mean to write a ‘biography’ of someone who never existed?” @scottwstern.bsky.social on fictional character biographies: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/fictional-character-biographies-shakespeare-margaret-hannibal-juliet-bigger/

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

Washington Independent Review of Books@wirobooks.bsky.social · 3w ago

A virtuoso assessment of a singular monarch. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/s... @wwnorton.com @wwnortonlibrary.bsky.social @scottwstern.bsky.social @charlesomalley.bsky.social #booksky #shakespearesmargaret #shakespeare

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.”

Washington Independent Review of Books@wirobooks.bsky.social · 3w ago

A virtuoso assessment of a singular monarch. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/s... @wwnorton.com @wwnortonlibrary.bsky.social @scottwstern.bsky.social @charlesomalley.bsky.social #booksky #shakespearesmargaret #shakespeare

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...

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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as the kids say, no choice but to stan

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 2mo ago

#OtD 14 Jun 1381 during the peasants’ revolt in England, Wat Tyler’s rebel army of some 50,000 to 100,000 people captured London Bridge and the Tower of London, killing the English Chancellor and Treasurer stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8582...

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...

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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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...

SHAKESPEARE’S MARGARET is out from @wwnorton.com today!! Check out @charlesomalley.bsky.social and my essay in LitHub about co-writing this book while also being married and not killing each other :) lithub.com/what-co-writ...

What Co-Writing a Book on Shakespeare Taught Us About Marriage and Parenthood

There was, last fall, a lot pulling us to see the movie Hamnet—the Shakespearean subject matter, the caliber of the actors, the breathless reviews—but, as the parents of still-relatively newborn tw…

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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...

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

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

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/...

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

The New York Review of Books@nybooks.com · 4mo ago

Scott W. Stern on environmental populism in 1970s Texas

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

The New York Review of Books@nybooks.com · 4mo ago

Scott W. Stern on environmental populism in 1970s Texas

“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

‘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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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/...

‘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

nybooks.com

Check out my latest in @newrepublic.com, wherein I review a brilliant, shockingly svelte history of capitalism (out now from @wwnorton.com)! Thanks, as always, to @lauramarsh.bsky.social for the incisive edits! newrepublic.com/article/2088...

The Historian Who Wants to Imagine an Alternative to Capitalism

Trevor Jackson traces the “dumb, inhuman logic” of endless growth over hundreds of years, and gestures at a better world.

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This technology should be destroyed with hammers www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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

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."

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

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 5mo ago

To strike 1,000 targets in 24 hours in Iran, the U.S. military leveraged the most advanced AI it’s ever used in warfare. Anthropic’s Claude partnered with the military’s Maven Smart System, suggesting targets and issuing precise location coordinates. https://wapo.st/46BFe1T

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

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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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 !!

Alissa Wilkinson@alissawilkinson.bsky.social · 6mo ago

We need to find a way to tell the youths about alt-weeklies so they restart them

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

Scott W. Stern@scottwstern.bsky.social · 7mo ago

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...

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

Andrea Pitzer@andreapitzer.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I wrote about how concentration camp regimes evolve and why it's not too late to stop this, even though we are deep in it now.

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 😎

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...