Norton Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/norton/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:18:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Norton Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/norton/ 32 32 Mae Ngai: “We’ve Always Had Activists in Our Communities” https://www.publicbooks.org/mae-ngai-weve-always-had-activists-in-our-communities/ Wed, 13 Oct 2021 15:00:33 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=45971 “Americans—whether they believe they are not racist or whether they are stone-cold racists—still struggle to see the structures of racism.”

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]]> The Direction of Beginning https://www.publicbooks.org/the-direction-of-beginning/ Fri, 25 Jun 2021 15:00:25 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=43929 These poems undo the cultural invisibility of America’s Native Nations. They also, with unique abundance, secure the value of poetry itself.

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]]> Public Picks 2021 https://www.publicbooks.org/public-picks-2021/ Fri, 21 May 2021 15:00:04 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=43288 Each May we send our readers into summer with a curated list of the titles that dazzled, challenged, and inspired us most over the past year (or so).

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]]> Think like a Virus https://www.publicbooks.org/think-like-a-virus/ Thu, 07 Jan 2021 16:00:10 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=40585 Rather than accepting that a virus will come, we can learn how viruses live and thrive—and work to suppress them before they take off.

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]]> Women’s Ways of Aging https://www.publicbooks.org/womens-ways-of-aging/ Tue, 16 Jun 2020 15:00:06 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=36589 Studying human evolution reveals that older women have always been essential to the surviving and thriving of the species.

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]]> “The Culture of Narcissism” @40—and Counting https://www.publicbooks.org/the-culture-of-narcissism-40-and-counting/ Tue, 26 May 2020 15:00:15 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=35835 What if today’s self-centered world was born decades before digital media, as part of a much longer transformation of American society?

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]]> A Black Counternarrative https://www.publicbooks.org/a-black-counternarrative/ Thu, 11 Jul 2019 15:00:03 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=29331 Master narratives become the background music of our lives, undercurrents so ingrained that the violence they often engender is rendered unremarkable. One master narrative is the tale we tell about the United States being a welcoming country to immigrants, about how the “bootstrap” mentality enables one to build and sustain a life here. Another is […]

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]]> On Our Nightstands: June 2019 https://www.publicbooks.org/on-our-nightstands-june-2019/ Thu, 27 Jun 2019 14:00:59 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=28928 At Public Books, our editorial staff and contributors are hard at work to provide readers with thought-provoking articles. But when the workday is done, what is ...

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]]> Public Picks 2019 https://www.publicbooks.org/public-picks-2019/ Fri, 17 May 2019 14:00:33 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=28300 Each year around this time we send our readers into summer with a curated list of the titles that dazzled, challenged, and inspired us most over the past year. For this, the seventh-annual edition of Public Picks, we’ve asked our editors for the Public Thinker series, Literary Fiction, Higher Education, Children’s & Young Adult Literature, […]

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]]> The Return of Homer’s Women https://www.publicbooks.org/the-return-of-homers-women/ Thu, 16 May 2019 15:00:08 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=28266 Emily Wilson’s Odyssey, Pat Barker’s Silence of the Girls, and Madeline Miller’s Circe speak the lost and muted voices of ancient Greek women ...

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