Scott W. Stern

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

fantastic piece in the @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social on SHAKESPEARE'S MARGARET (@wwnorton.com)! pghrev.com/the-once-and... @scottwstern.bsky.social

Truly overjoyed to see this detailed, thoughtful, and stunningly generous essay about SHAKESPEARE'S MARGARET (@wwnorton.com) from Elise L. Ryan in the @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social! CC @charlesomalley.bsky.social pghrev.com/the-once-and...

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...

"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/

"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 !!

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!!

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

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.”

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...

as the kids say, no choice but to stan

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 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...

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/...

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

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

“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

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/...

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...

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."

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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

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 !!

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

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...

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.

“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...

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...

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...)

"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

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...

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...

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...

"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...

“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

“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

Scott W. Stern @scottwstern.bsky.social on how a group of incarcerated women rewrote the history of their prison

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!