General articles: Arts and culture
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The Normal Heart
The Normal Heart is Larry Kramer's 1985 autobiographical play about AIDS activist Ned Weeks and the founding of Gay Men's Health Crisis in early-1980s New York; premiered at the Public Theater, it won the 2011 Tony for Best Revival and was filmed for HBO in 2014.
The Normal Heart (film)
The Normal Heart (2014) is Ryan Murphy's HBO television film of Larry Kramer's 1985 play, starring Mark Ruffalo as activist Ned Weeks during New York's early AIDS crisis (1981-1984); it won two Emmys from 16 nominations and drew 1.4 million premiere viewers.
The Norman Conquests
The Norman Conquests is a comic trilogy of three plays by Alan Ayckbourn, first performed in 1973, showing the same disastrous family weekend from three different rooms.
The North American Iceberg
The North American Iceberg is a 1985 mixed-media work by Anishinaabe artist Carl Beam, the first Indigenous artwork bought by the National Gallery of Canada as contemporary art.
The North American Indian
The North American Indian is a twenty-volume illustrated ethnographic survey of Native American peoples, written and published by photographer Edward S. Curtis between 1907 and 1930.
The North American Indian Photogravures
The North American Indian photogravures are the 2,228 copperplate intaglio prints illustrating Edward S. Curtis's twenty-volume ethnographic work documenting more than eighty Native American tribes, published between 1907 and 1930.
The North Face
The North Face is an American outdoor apparel and equipment brand founded in 1966 by climber Doug Tompkins in San Francisco and owned by VF Corporation since 2000.
The North Remembers
The North Remembers: a vengeance saying from A Song of Ice and Fire, the title of Game of Thrones season 2 episode 1 (April 1, 2012, Benioff and Weiss, Alan Taylor), and a near-500,000-word fanfic by Silverblood continuing A Dance with Dragons.
The North Water (TV series)
The North Water (2021) is a five-part BBC Two and AMC+ miniseries written and directed by Andrew Haigh, adapted from Ian McGuire's 2016 novel, starring Jack O'Connell and Colin Farrell in an 1859 Arctic whaling thriller filmed on Svalbard at 81 degrees north.
The Northern Bee
The Northern Bee (Северная пчела) was a Russian newspaper published in Saint Petersburg from 1825 to 1864, the first private paper allowed to print political news.
The Northman
The Northman (2022) is Robert Eggers's Viking revenge epic, co-written with Sjón, starring Alexander Skarsgård as Amleth; based on the Saxo Grammaticus legend behind Hamlet, released April 22, 2022, 90% on Rotten Tomatoes, Metascore 82.
The Norton Anthology of American Literature
The Norton Anthology of American Literature is a college anthology of American poetry, prose, and fiction published by W. W. Norton since 1979 and periodically revised.
The Nose (Нос) (Gogol short story)
The Nose (Нос) is Gogol's 1836 satirical absurdist story in which Collegiate Assessor Kovalyov's nose leaves his face and lives as a state councillor; published in Pushkin's Sovremennik, later an opera by Shostakovich.
The Notebook
The Notebook (2004) is Nick Cassavetes' romantic drama adapted from Nicholas Sparks' 1996 debut novel, starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams; it grossed $81M domestically and spawned a 2024 Broadway musical.
The Notebook (musical)
The Notebook (musical): stage musical with music and lyrics by Ingrid Michaelson, book by Bekah Brunstetter, based on Nicholas Sparks's 1996 novel. Premiered 2022 at Chicago Shakespeare; Broadway 2024 at the Schoenfeld; three Tony nominations; North American tour from 2025.
The Notebook (novel)
The Notebook (1996) is Nicholas Sparks's debut romance novel, published by Warner Books. Noah and Allie fall in love in 1932 New Bern, North Carolina, reunite in 1946, and a nursing-home frame shows old age. 56 weeks on the NYT list; 2004 film; 2024 Broadway musical.
The Notebook Trilogy
The Notebook Trilogy: Le grand cahier, La preuve, Le troisième mensonge (1986–1991), three French-language novels by Hungarian-born Ágota Kristóf following twins Claus and Lucas through war and divided Europe.
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge) is a 1910 prose work by Rainer Maria Rilke, his only novel, following a young Danish poet in Paris.
The Nothing
The Nothing is Korn's 13th studio album (Roadrunner, September 13, 2019), a 44-minute grief concept record by Jonathan Davis after the 2018 deaths of his wife Deven and mother; Metascore 83, Billboard #8 debut.
The Notorious B.I.G.
The Notorious B.I.G., born Christopher Wallace (1972 to March 9, 1997), also called Biggie Smalls, was a Brooklyn rapper on Bad Boy Records whose albums Ready to Die and Life After Death made him a defining East Coast hip hop artist of the 1990s.
The Notorious Bettie Page
The Notorious Bettie Page is Mary Harron's 2005 biographical drama starring Gretchen Mol as 1950s pin-up model Bettie Page, covering her fetish modeling for the Klaws, the 1955 Kefauver Senate hearings, and her later religious life.
The Notwist
The Notwist: German indie rock/electronica band founded 1989 in Weilheim by Markus and Micha Acher; breakthrough album Neon Golden (2002); later albums Close to the Glass (2014), Vertigo Days (2021), News from Planet Zombie (2026).
The Noun Project
The Noun Project, founded 2011 by Edward Boatman, Sofya Polyakov, and Scott Thomas, is a crowdsourced icon and photo library of nearly 10 million human-made icons, licensed under CC BY 3.0, Public Domain, or paid royalty-free terms, paying creators 60% of single-purchase revenue.
The Novelist's Film (소설가의 영화)
The Novelist's Film (소설가의 영화) is Hong Sang-soo's 27th feature, a 2022 black-and-white Korean drama starring Lee Hye-young and Kim Min-hee; it won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at the 72nd Berlinale, his third straight Berlin award.
The Novellas of Matteo Bandello
The Novellas of Matteo Bandello, or Novelle, are a collection of 214 Italian prose stories, first published in 1554, whose tale of Romeo and Juliet supplied Shakespeare's plot.
The November Man
The November Man is a 2014 spy thriller directed by Roger Donaldson, starring Pierce Brosnan as ex-CIA agent Peter Devereaux, based on Bill Granger's novel There Are No Spies; released August 27, 2014, grossing $25 million domestically.
The Now
The Now (2021) is a dark comedy series created by Peter Farrelly, Pete Jones, and Steve Leff, starring Dave Franco as Ed Poole, a man who rethinks his life after family suicides. Originally made for Quibi, its 14 ten-minute episodes premiered December 10, 2021 on The Roku Channel.
The Now Now
The Now Now is the sixth studio album by Gorillaz, released June 29, 2018 on Parlophone/Warner Bros. Recorded in one month at Studio 13, London with James Ford, it reversed Humanz's guest-heavy approach with only Snoop Dogg, Jamie Principle, and George Benson as features.
The Number 23
The Number 23 is a 2007 psychological thriller directed by Joel Schumacher, starring Jim Carrey as Walter Sparrow, an animal control officer obsessed with a novel about the 23 Enigma; released February 23, 2007 by New Line Cinema, it grossed $77.7 million worldwide but scored 7% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Number of the Beast (album)
Iron Maiden's third studio album, released 22 March 1982 on EMI; first with Bruce Dickinson, last with Clive Burr, first UK number one, over 14 million copies sold.