The Norton Reader
An Anthology of Nonfiction
- *Appears in the full edition only.
- Titles in bold are new to the Thirteenth Edition
Personal Accounts
Journals
Portraits of People and Places
Scott Russell, Under the Influence
Annie Dillard, from An American Childhood
- *Judith Ortiz Cofer, More Room
- N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain
- *Tom Wolfe, Yeager
- Toni Morrison, Strangers
- *Jamaica Kincaid, Sowers and Reapers
- Jhumpa Lahiri, Rhode Island
- Ian Frazier, Take the F
- David Guterson, Enclosed, Enclopedic, Endured: The Mall of America
Human Nature
Cultural Analysis
Op-Eds and Public Arguments
Education
Language and Communication
An Album of Styles
Nature and the Environment
Ethics
History
Politics and Government
Spoken Words
Science and Technology
Literature, The Arts, and Media
- Eudora Welty, One Writer’s Beginnings
- Vladimir Nabokov, Good Readers and Good Writers
- *Allegra Goodman, Pemberley Previsited
- *Northrop Frye, The Motive for Metaphor
- *Mark Doty, Souls on Ice
- *Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, Decolonizing the Mind
- Virginia Woolf, In Search of a Room of One’s Own
- Michael Chabon, Kids’ Stuff
- Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics
- *Susan Sontag, A Century of Cinema
- *Susan Allen Toth, Going to the Movies
- Aaron Copland, How We Listen
- Gene Weingarten, Pearls Before Breakfast
Philosophy and Religion