According to author Jeff Sebo, our future relationship with AI can be understood through a deeper look into ethical and moral theory, human exceptionalism, and our relationship with animals. Learn how his students handle these topics in our latest Norton Learning Blog post.
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Request a recording of anthropologist Ashanté M. Reese's webinar focusing on her new title, Gather: Black Food, Nourishment, and the Art of Togetherness, the resilience of Black communities, and how gathering creates sustainable systemic change in food justice.
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Join anthropologist Ashanté M. Reese for a conversation about her new vision on food justice that centers the resilience of Black communities and recognizes the power of gathering to create sustainable systemic change.
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Request a recording of Professor Mehrsa Baradaran's conversation about her new Norton Shorts title "The Racial Wealth Gap," a concise history behind America's systemic economic issues and the forces driving apart the economic fortunes of American families. seagull.wwnorton.com/RacialWealth...
And be sure to check out our fantastic authors and editors at their panels throughout #MLA26!
Norton Booth with textbooks on display
Are you at #MLA26 and in desperate need of good books, conversation, & a brand new Jane Austen poster for your office? Swing by the Norton booth!
We have team members for @nortonliterature.bsky.social & @nortonlibrary.bsky.social here with us & I promise we are not just anthropomorphic seagulls!
Do you have students interested in #publishing? Have them apply to our Spring 2026 Hybrid Internship! Our interns are paid, they get hands on experience, can participate in education sessions, & they can meet the anthropomorphic seagull behind this account!
Apply here: wwnorton.com/careers/nort...
Green and yellow color blocked cover of John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress Norton Library Edition against a colorful bookcase featuring the spines of other Norton Library editions.
I will yet go forward without fear of this brand new Norton Library edition of John Bunyan’s #PilgrimsProgress!
Edited by Margaret Sönser Breen and Andy Draycott, this is an accessible edition that gives readers a feel for The Pilgrim’s Progress as a 17th-century work: wwnorton.com/books/978039...
"That fall the snow came very late."
– Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
In Episode 750, @jackewilson.bsky.social talks to Mark Cirino about Hemingway's classic love-and-war novel A Farewell to Arms.
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Purple and orange color blocked cover of Charles Dickens’s novel Great Expectations against a backdrop of purple and green flowers. Edited by Daniel Wright for The Norton Library.
Against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement, we love our latest Norton Library edition of Charles Dickens’s famed novel Great Expectations, edited by Daniel Wright (University of Toronto): wwnorton.com/books/978132...! #NewBookTuesday
Happy Fall Semester to those who celebrate! Here's your regular reminder that if you choose my @nortonlibrary.bsky.social Sun Also Rises edition for your reading list, I will be happy to Zoom in with your students or book club for a Q&A!
Green and orange color blocked cover of Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (The Norton Library) edited by Evie Shockley on a wooden table with a white background.
This narrative is no fiction—our brand-new edition of Harriet Jacobs’s stirring autobiography, Incidents In the Life of a Slave Girl is available now!
Edited by @seminewblack.bsky.social, this Norton Library edition helps contextualize the narrative for modern readers: wwnorton.com/books/978039...
A stack of several purple-and-yellow copies of Charles Dickens's GREAT EXPECTATIONS, edited by Daniel Wright, Norton Library edition
FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION. Think about this @nortonlibrary.bsky.social edition for all your 2025-26 teaching needs!
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"A horrible misreading of this book ... has mushroomed into a destructive reading of the relation of the humanities to the sciences" www.buzzsprout.com/2129520/epis.... Via @nortonlibrary.bsky.social
If your summer Friday is in need of some serious excitement, join the Hemingway Society for a morning webinar on #AFarewelltoArms! Their panel includes our Norton Critical Editions editor Marc K. Dudley and our @nortonlibrary.bsky.social editor Mark Cirino!
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Congrats to Mark Cirino and NLE for this latest edition. NLE editions edited by subject experts and annotated especially for students. Assign texts from this series and feel good about keeping student book fees low and classroom text quality high!
Norton Library edition of A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, a modernist novel. The yellow and blue text cover is photographed on a brown background with a succulent and candle as decor
Lay down your TBR and pick up the brand-new Norton Library edition of Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, edited by the insightful & thought-provoking Mark Cirino!
Read along here: wwnorton.com/books/978132... and tune into the Norton Library podcast in two weeks for our episodes on the novel!
To Those Claiming Taylor No Longer Hot: Norton Library weighs in. @nortonlibrary.bsky.social www.buzzsprout.com/2129520/epis...
Scarlet A buttons
New edition of The Scarlet Letter, a book with almost no plot but an extremely analytical narrator
Justine Murison giving a well-attended talk at the Rare Book library at the U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Excited to hear @jsmurison.bsky.social’s talk about her new edition of The Scarlet Letter from Norton. Check out those scarlet A pinback buttons! 😅
Red and yellow cover of Emily Wilson’s translation of Homer’s The Iliad for the Norton Library series against a backdrop of yellow tulips.
You already know the story of Homer’s The Iliad, but you can now experience the crushing grief of the world’s greatest war story anew!
@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social’s gripping translation is now available as part of the Norton Library series. Get your copy here: wwnorton.com/books/978132...
Are you a student or recent grad interested in #publishing? Do you want to learn how the industry works across all departments in a publishing house? If so, take a look at our new Summer 2025 Internships! We offer in-person and remote options!
Apply here: wwnorton.com/careers/nort...
Join us for part 2 of @vernakale.bsky.social's incredible conversation with the Norton Library Podcast on Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises! You'll get hot takes, Taylor Swift lyrics, a look into Hemingway's mindset while writing the novel, and more!
www.buzzsprout.com/2129520/epis...
The blue and orange cover of the Norton Library edition of The Odyssey by Homer, translation by Emily Wilson.
I loved taking part in #APSTogether reading groups with A Public Space during the pandemic, and it's been a while since I joined in. Remedying that tomorrow with Emily Wilson's translation of Homer's The Odyssey.
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A collection of colorful Norton Library editions with an emphasis on the lilac and navy edition of Little Women
The best color combo to date in the @wwnorton.bsky.social Norton Library series arrived this week. I’ve never finished Little Women as an adult. !
TYSM for knowing the exact vibe we were aiming for!
Norton library edition of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. The purple book is against a white background with a white vase of dried lavender sprigs
The Norton Library team loves good strong words that mean something, so we really love the brand-new Norton Library edition of Louisa May Alcott’s #LittleWomen edited by @sblackwood.bsky.social!
Head to the link in our bio to get reacquainted with the March family & their lasting literary legacy!
Book cover is red yellow blue and very minimalist. Event is January 24 at 6:30 at the Print Factory in Bellefonte.
If you’re in the area tomorrow evening (Penn State main/Bellefonte), come talk with me and @hesterblum.bsky.social about my antiracist classroom @nortonlibrary.bsky.social edition of Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises.
I have revised the translations and worked with a new editor Fred Neuhouser—the 2nd Discourse is out in the Norton Library. They have the ms. for the Social Contract.
The Sun Also Rises is one of our Norton Library spotlight titles!