Amanda M. Norton

Nov 21, 2024 | lit.newcity.com | Amanda M. Norton

An erudite work by the founding editorial director of the New York Review Books classics series, Edwin Frank’s “Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel” explores the idea that, as the author notes in his introduction, “literature is meant to open eyes.” As Frank refines the book’s aim, he theorizes, “When we look closely at the novel in the twentieth century, we see an art form of extraordinary amplitude put under unprecedented ongoing stress, and we see too that certain...

Oct 10, 2024 | lit.newcity.com | Amanda M. Norton

Question: can one conjure an entire novel out of a young woman’s looming obligation to produce an undergraduate essay on Shakespeare’s sonnets, on a cold winter Sunday at Oxford? Answer: if one is Rosalind Brown, one can. Along the way, Brown’s narrator, Annabel, pulls the reader with her as she dresses, thinks, walks, nourishes herself, fantasizes, moves through yoga poses and simply is.

Sep 16, 2024 | lit.newcity.com | Amanda M. Norton

I learned to read in 1984. That was also when I first became captivated by momentous political events—the campaign of Geraldine Ferraro, who ran with Walter Mondale as the first woman on a major American presidential ticket, is my earliest such memory. In 1984, Pamela Churchill Harriman (née Digby, also briefly Pamela Hayward) was in her mid-sixties, making a name for herself in the capital of her adopted homeland. Harriman spoke at the 1984 Democratic National Convention.

Aug 26, 2024 | jccpe.utpjournals.press | Amanda M. Norton |Elysia G. Fuller-Thomson |Matthew Adams

SUMMARY FOR POLICYMAKERS Environmental justice in the context of urban air pollution exposure may be of concern in the Peel Region. Three out of four dimensions of the Ontario Marginalization Index were positively associated with air pollution concentrations at the dissemination area level in the Peel Region. As a result of this analysis, the following policy work is recommended. (a) Research in Canada is inconclusive regarding social vulnerability or marginalization.

Jul 11, 2024 | lit.newcity.com | Amanda M. Norton

Mixing sci-fi, historical fiction, spy thriller and erotic love story with dashes of post-colonial critique and postmodern narrative self-referentiality, Kaliane Bradley’s “The Ministry of Time” unfolds in ten parts and ten chapters. The third-person parts chronicle the final years of a real historical figure, First Lieutenant Graham Gore, a commander in the British Royal Navy presumed to have died in 1847 on a failed Arctic expedition.