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Jupiter's Legacy (comic)
Jupiter's Legacy: superhero comic by Mark Millar and Frank Quitely, Image Comics 2013-2015, Union of Justice code, prequel Jupiter's Circle, sequels Requiem and Finale, 2021 Netflix series.
Just Kids
Just Kids is a 2010 memoir by Patti Smith recounting her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe in New York from 1967 until his death in 1989.
Justice League
Justice League: DC Comics' premier superhero team, first appearing in The Brave and the Bold #28 (1960) with Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman; distinct from the 1940 Justice Society and from Marvel's Avengers.
Justice League Dark
Justice League Dark is a DC Comics superhero team of magic users and occult characters such as John Constantine, Zatanna, Deadman, and Madame Xanadu, created by Peter Milligan and Mikel Janín in 2011 to fight supernatural threats the regular Justice League cannot handle.
Justice Society of America
Justice Society of America (JSA): DC Comics' first superhero team, debuting in All-Star Comics #3 (Winter 1940) by Gardner Fox and E. E. Hibbard, distinct from the later Justice League by its cross-generational mentor roster.
Justine (de Sade novel)
Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue, is a 1791 erotic novel by the Marquis de Sade, set in France before the Revolution, telling of a virtuous young woman's misfortunes.
Juvenal
Juvenal (Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis), Roman satirist of the late 1st and early 2nd century CE, wrote 16 angry, rhetorical satires in five books attacking Roman society; known from Martial's epigrams, source of "bread and circuses".
Ka Moʻolelo Hawaiʻi
Ka Moʻolelo Hawaiʻi, known in English as Hawaiian Antiquities, is an 1838 Hawaiian-language account of pre-Christian Hawaiian life, cosmology, and government attributed to Davida Malo.
Ka Moʻolelo o Hiʻiakaikapoliopele
Ka Moʻolelo o Hiʻiakaikapoliopele is a Hawaiian epic telling how Hiʻiaka, youngest sister of the goddess Pele, journeys to Kauaʻi to fetch Pele's lover Lohiʻau.
Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou: Struggle Without End
Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou: Struggle Without End is a 1990 history of New Zealand from a Māori perspective by Ranginui Walker, revised in 2004 with chapters covering 1990 onward.
Kaa
Kaa is the giant rock python in Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli stories, introduced in "Kaa's Hunting" (The Jungle Book, 1894) as a wise mentor and rescuer of Mowgli. Disney's 1967 film recast him as a comic hypnotic villain voiced by Sterling Holloway; Scarlett Johansson voiced him in the 2016 film.
Kaalam
Kaalam (കാലം, "Time") is a 1969 Malayalam novel by M. T. Vasudevan Nair following Sethumadhavan Nair from age 15 to 30 in a decaying matrilineal Kerala family.
Kab Tak Pukar
Kab Tak Pukar (कब तक पुकारूँ) is a 1957 Hindi novel by Rangeya Raghav about the nomadic Karnat community in the Bair region on the Rajasthan–Uttar Pradesh border.
Kaba Cindua Mato
Kaba Cindua Mato is a classical Minangkabau kaba, a rhymed-prose epic of West Sumatra, Indonesia, telling of the royal family of Pagaruyung and the hero Cindua Mato.
Kabar
Kabar (কবর, "The Grave") is a 1925 Bengali dramatic monologue poem by Jasimuddin, in which an old farmer narrates his family's losses at his wife's grave.
Kabir Granthavali
Kabir Granthavali (कबीर ग्रंथावली) is a collection of dohas and pads attributed to the North Indian poet-saint Kabir, preserved in the Rajasthani tradition of the Dadu Panth.
Kadal Pura
Kadal Pura (கடல் புறா, "The Sea Pigeon") is a 1967 Tamil historical novel by Sandilyan, set in the reign of Veera Rajendra Chola and centered on Chola naval power.
Kaddish and Other Poems
Kaddish and Other Poems is a 1961 poetry collection by Allen Ginsberg, published by City Lights Books and centered on his elegy for his mother.
Kafan
Kafan (क़फ़न, "The Shroud") is a 1935 short story by Munshi Premchand, his last completed one, in which a poor father and son drink away a burial shroud's money.
Kafka on the Shore (海辺のカフカ)
Kafka on the Shore (海辺のカフカ, Umibe no Kafuka) is Haruki Murakami's 2002 two-volume novel, translated by Philip Gabriel in 2005, following runaway Kafka Tamura and cat-speaking Nakata in parallel quests.
Kagaz Te Canvas
Kagaz Te Canvas (ਕਾਗਜ਼ ਤੇ ਕੈਨਵਸ, "Paper and Canvas") is a 1970 Punjabi poetry collection by Amrita Pritam, the work for which she won the Bharatiya Jnanpith Award.
Kaidan-shū
Kaidan-shū (怪談集) is a Japanese book collection of kaidan, written tales of the strange and supernatural, a genre that took shape in the Edo period.
Kaidara
Kaidara (also spelled Kaïdara or Kaydara) is a Fulani initiatory narrative in 2,460 free verses, collected in 1968 by Malian writer Amadou Hampâté Bâ and published in 1969.
Kaidōki
Kaidōki (海道記) is an anonymous Japanese travel diary, completed around 1223, recording an elderly monk's journey from Kyoto down the Tōkaidō road to Kamakura and back.
Kaifūsō
Kaifūsō (懐風藻) is the oldest surviving anthology of Chinese-style poetry (kanshi) by Japanese poets, compiled in 751 during the Nara period, collecting about 120 poems by 64 court authors.
Kaijin Fugeki
Kaijin Fugeki: Kindled Spirits (灰仭巫覡) is a dark fantasy manga by Oh!Great (Ito Ōgure), serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine since May 2024, in which Jin and Gao dance to invoke gods against calamities called Nights; English via K Manga and Vertical.
Kaikeyi (कैकेयी)
Kaikeyi (कैकेयी), queen of Ayodhya and Dasharatha's wife, mother of Bharata, whose two boons, won by saving the king in battle, send Rama into fourteen years of forest exile in the Ramayana's Ayodhya Kanda.
Kairos (novel)
Kairos is a 2021 novel by Jenny Erpenbeck about an affair between Katharina and Hans in 1980s East Berlin as the GDR collapses. Translated by Michael Hofmann, it won the 2024 International Booker Prize, the first for a German author.
Kaiserchronik
The Kaiserchronik, or Chronicle of the Emperors, is an early Middle High German verse chronicle of over 17,000 verses written around 1150, probably in Regensburg.
Kakababu Samagra
Kakababu Samagra (কাকাবাবু সমগ্র) is a six-volume collected edition of the Kakababu mystery-adventure series by Bengali writer Sunil Gangopadhyay, published by Anand Publishers of Kolkata.