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

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By Charles O’Malley, Scott Stern
| Literary Hub Verified
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 twins, we were dreading it. It’s hardly a spoiler to mention that the plot of Hamnet centers on the death of one of William Shakespeare’s twins.
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The Historian Who Wants To Imagine an Alternative to Capitalism

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By Scott Stern
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The Historian Who Wants To Imagine an Alternative to Capitalism Published May 6, 2026 The Insatiable Machine: How Capitalism Conquered the World Trevor Jackson W.W. Norton & Company ISBN: 978-1-324-10687-6 On November 5, 2008—the nadir of that year’s eponymous financial crisis—Queen Elizabeth II visited the London School of Economics to celebrate the opening of a new building.
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‘Go Out and Sue a Polluter’

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By Scott Stern
| Soundings from The New York Review
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 far west as San Antonio and as far east as Port Arthur. Flights were grounded, cars crashed, and all traffic halted in the Houston Ship Channel, one of the busiest ports in the world. The murk posed a real threat to Texans with emphysema or asthma, to the elderly or the infirm.
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