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Neoclassicism in Arabic poetry
Neoclassicism in Arabic poetry (Arabic: مدرسة الإحياء والبعث), the school of revival and resurrection, was a 19th-century movement restoring the classical qasidah, founded by Mahmud Sami al-Barudi.
Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems
Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems is a 1993 poetry collection by Yusef Komunyakaa, published by Wesleyan University Press; it won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Nepali Ramayana tradition
The Nepali Ramayana tradition centers on the Bhanubhaktiya Ramayana, Bhanubhakta Acharya's 1853 Nepali verse rendering of the Sanskrit Adhyatma Ramayana, regarded as Nepal's Ramcharitmanas and the first epic of Nepali poetry.
Nero Wolfe
Nero Wolfe, Rex Stout's sedentary, orchid-growing genius detective of the New York brownstone, with legman-narrator Archie Goodwin; 33 novels and 41 novellas from Fer-de-Lance (1934) to A Family Affair (1975), 45 million copies sold, and adaptations including the A&E series with Maury Chaykin and Timothy Hutton.
Nervous Conditions
Nervous Conditions is a 1988 novel by Zimbabwean writer Tsitsi Dangarembga about a girl's education in 1960s Rhodesia, and the first novel published in English by a Black Zimbabwean woman.
Nesteren
Nesteren is a verse drama by the Ottoman playwright Abdülhak Hâmid, written and printed in Paris in 1877 and modeled in subject on Corneille's Le Cid.
Never Flinch
Never Flinch is Stephen King's 2025 mystery-thriller (Scribner, May 27, 2025, 448 pages, ISBN 9781668089330), the sixth Holly Gibney novel, intertwining a serial-killer revenge plot and a bodyguard case for activist Kate McKay.
Never Let Me Go (novel)
Never Let Me Go, 2005 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro (also known by translations like Nunca me abandones), narrated by clone-carer Kathy H. of Hailsham; Booker-shortlisted dystopia about organ donation, over two million copies sold.
Neverland
Neverland, also called Never-Never Land, is J.M. Barrie's fictional island in Peter Pan (1904 play, 1911 Peter and Wendy), home to Peter, the Lost Boys, Hook, and Tiger Lily; the word predates Barrie (OED: Sydney 1892), and its rights are tied to Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity.
Neverwhere (novel)
Neverwhere is Neil Gaiman's 1996 urban fantasy novel, a novelization of his BBC TV series devised with Lenny Henry, following Richard Mayhew into London Below; published in UK, US, and author's preferred texts.
Neville Longbottom
Neville Longbottom, Harry Potter's Gryffindor classmate in J.K. Rowling's series, son of tortured Aurors Frank and Alice, second prophecy candidate, Nagini's killer, later Herbology professor married to Hannah Abbott.
New Game! (ニューゲーム！)
New Game! (ニューゲーム！) is Shotaro Tokuno's four-panel manga about character designer Aoba Suzukaze at the game studio Eagle Jump, serialized in Manga Time Kirara Carat 2013–2021, 13 volumes, with a two-season anime in 2016 and 2017.
New Grub Street
New Grub Street is an 1891 novel by George Gissing, named for the old London street of hack writers, following journalists and novelists competing in the harsh late-Victorian literary marketplace.
New Journalism
New Journalism: intensely subjective 1960s-1970s American reportage using fictional techniques, associated with Tom Wolfe, Capote, Mailer, Didion, and Thompson; named in Wolfe's 1973 anthology.
New Moon (novel)
New Moon (2006) is Stephenie Meyer's second Twilight Saga novel, a YA vampire-werewolf romance in which Bella Swan grieves Edward's departure and befriends the werewolf Jacob Black; a New York Times Children's Chapter Books number-one seller for eleven weeks.
New Mutants
New Mutants: Marvel Comics teenage X-Men spin-off team created by Chris Claremont and Bob McLeod, debuting in Marvel Graphic Novel #4 (1982); members include Wolfsbane, Cannonball, Sunspot, Moonstar, Magik; later adapted into the 2020 horror-styled Fox film.
New Poems
New Poems (German: Neue Gedichte) is a two-volume collection of 189 poems by Rainer Maria Rilke, published in Leipzig in 1907 and 1908 and including "Der Panther".
New Prefaces
New Prefaces (Xin Xu, 新序) is a collection of historical anecdotes and dialogues compiled by the Western Han scholar Liu Xiang to counsel the emperor on governance and conduct.
New Spring
New Spring is a 2004 prequel novel by Robert Jordan to his Wheel of Time fantasy series, telling how Moiraine Damodred and Lan Mandragoran met and began the search for the Dragon Reborn.
New Warriors
New Warriors: Marvel Comics superhero team of teen and young-adult heroes, debuted in The Mighty Thor #411 (1989) with its own 1990-1996 series by Fabian Nicieza and Mark Bagley; known for the Stamford incident that triggered Civil War and an unaired Freeform TV pilot.
New Woman novel
The New Woman novel was late-Victorian fiction of the 1880s and 1890s centering on independent, educated women, named after the "New Woman" coined in 1894.
Newbery Medal
The Newbery Medal, also called the John Newbery Medal, is an annual American award since 1922 for the most distinguished work of children's literature by a US author.
Newman Prize for Chinese Literature
The Newman Prize for Chinese Literature (纽曼华语文学奖) is a biennial prize at the University of Oklahoma for a living author writing in Chinese, established in 2008.
News from Nowhere
News from Nowhere is an 1890 utopian romance by William Morris, serialized in Commonweal, depicting a moneyless communist England reached by its narrator in a dream.
Nezahualcoyotl's songs
Nezahualcoyotl's songs are Nahuatl flower songs attributed to Nezahualcoyotl (1402–1472), poet-ruler of Texcoco, preserved in two sixteenth-century manuscripts whose actual authorship remains debated by scholars.
Ngā Mōteatea
Ngā Mōteatea (The Songs) is a four-volume annotated collection of traditional Māori songs, compiled by Sir Āpirana Ngata and translated by Pei Te Hurinui Jones.
Ngo Pa
Ngo Pa (เงาะป่า, "Forest Savage") is a 1905 Thai verse play by King Chulalongkorn (Rama V), a tragic love triangle among forest dwellers considered a Thai literary masterpiece.
Ngư Tiều y thuật vấn đáp
Ngư Tiều y thuật vấn đáp is a 3,644-line Vietnamese narrative poem by poet and physician Nguyễn Đình Chiểu that teaches traditional Eastern medicine in verse.
Người lái đò Sông Đà
Người lái đò Sông Đà (The Boatman of the Da River) is a Vietnamese tùy bút essay by Nguyễn Tuân, published in his 1960 collection Sông Đà.
Nhật ký trong tù
Nhật ký trong tù (Prison Diary) is a collection of 133 poems written in Chinese by Hồ Chí Minh while imprisoned in Guangxi, China, in 1942–1943.