A landmark biography that reclaims Ella Fitzgerald as a major American artist and modernist innovator
In the industrial age, automation came for the shoemaker and the seamstress. Today, it has come for the writer, physician, programmer and attorney
A philosopher calls for a revolution in ethics, suggesting we expand our “moral circle” to include insects, AI systems and even microbes
The strange story of the twentieth-century artists who sought to destroy art by transforming it into the substance of everyday life
An acclaimed critic, journalist and songwriter-musician tells the story of art’s relation to machines, from the Baroque period to the age of AI
From tar-ladles and snuff-boxes to sailmaker's fids and carronades: a gorgeous photographic essay onthe nautical worlds of Jack Aubrey.
Part of the Norton Library series
"A damning denunciation of things as they are, and a platform for how we can do better."-Andrew Leonard, Salon
An eye—and ear—opening investigation into how the cacophony of our ever-noisier world affects our health, our well-being and our planet