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Nothing Gold Can Stay (poem)
Nothing Gold Can Stay is an eight-line 1923 Robert Frost lyric, first printed in The Yale Review and collected in New Hampshire. Four rhymed couplets in mostly iambic trimeter argue that beauty, innocence, and all things of value fade; famous for The Outsiders' "stay gold."
Nothing Lasts Forever (Thorp novel)
Nothing Lasts Forever is Roderick Thorp's 1979 Norton thriller, sequel to The Detective, in which Joe Leland fights terrorists in the Klaxon Oil skyscraper; it became the 1988 film Die Hard.
Nothing, Nobody: The Voices of the Earthquake
Nothing, Nobody: The Voices of the Earthquake, originally Nada, nadie: las voces del temblor, is Elena Poniatowska's 1988 testimonial book on the earthquakes that devastated Mexico City in 1985.
Notre-Dame de Paris (musical)
Notre-Dame de Paris is a 1998 French sung-through musical by Luc Plamondon and Richard Cocciante, based on Victor Hugo's novel, premiered at the Palais des Congrès de Paris, famous for the song Belle, with over 16 million spectators worldwide.
Noucome
Noucome (のうコメ), full title Ore no Nounai Sentakushi ga, Gakuen Rabu Kome o Zenryoku de Jama Shiteiru, is a Kadokawa Sneaker Bunko light novel series by Takeru Kasukabe and Yukiwo about a boy cursed with absurd "Absolute Choices"; it ran 12 volumes (2012–2016) and a 10-episode Diomedéa anime aired from October 2013.
Noughts & Crosses (novel series)
Noughts & Crosses is Malorie Blackman's young adult dystopian series (first book 2001) set in a race-reversed Britain where dark-skinned Crosses rule white Noughts, following Callum and Sephy across six novels and three novellas.
Noukadubi
Noukadubi (নৌকাডুবি, "The Boat Wreck") is a 1906 novel by the Bengali writer Rabindranath Tagore, in which a boat wreck and a mistaken marriage entangle four lives.
Nouveau roman
The nouveau roman, or new novel, is experimental French fiction that emerged in the 1950s, rejecting traditional plot, character psychology, and realism; writers include Robbe-Grillet, Sarraute, and Claude Simon.
Nouvelle
A nouvelle is a short work of French prose fiction, briefer than a novel and built around a single adventure or character, exemplified by Mérimée and Maupassant.
Nova Corps
Nova Corps: Marvel Comics' Xandarian space police force created by Marv Wolfman and John Buscema, debuting in Fantastic Four #205 (1979), powered by the Worldmind's Nova Force and known from Guardians of the Galaxy (2014).
Novel
Novel: the longest form of prose fiction, a book-length imaginative narrative of connected events, distinct from the novella and short story, emerging in Europe from the late 17th century and reshaped by digital publishing and audiobook streaming.
Novel of ideas
A novel of ideas is a novel organized around ideological conflict, where the idea itself is the protagonist, a form Dostoevsky developed in 1860s Russia.
Novel of manners
The novel of manners (French: roman de mœurs) is a type of novel that renders the ways of life of a society through social observation, chiefly in nineteenth-century French realism.
Novel sequence
A novel sequence is a series of at least three novels or novellas by one author sharing characters, settings, or continuous storylines, distinct from a single novel printed in parts.
Novela de la Revolución
Novela de la Revolución, or Novel of the Revolution, is the Mexican fiction inspired by the Mexican Revolution of 1910, flourishing from the 1920s into the 1950s.
Novela de la tierra
Novela de la tierra ("novel of the land"), also called the telluric novel, is a regionalist current of early twentieth-century Spanish American fiction centered on land and rural life.
Novela de la Violencia
The novela de la Violencia is a body of Colombian novels from about 1948 to 1964 depicting the bipartisan political violence known as La Violencia.
Novela social
Novela social, also called realismo social, is the Spanish realist novel movement of the 1950s and early 1960s that documented social injustices under the Franco dictatorship.
Novelization
Novelization, or movie tie-in novel: a novel adapted from a film, TV program, or screenplay, published around the screen work's release. Dates to silent-era serials like The Adventures of Kathlyn (1913); golden era in the 1970s; now marketed as franchise lore supplements.
Novella
A novella is a work of prose fiction longer than a short story and shorter than a novel, usually 17,500 to 40,000 words, focused on a single conflict.
Novísima poesía cubana
Novísima poesía cubana is a 1962 Cuban poetry anthology published in Havana by the El Puente group led by José Mario Rodríguez, whose suppression made it a landmark of cultural policy.
Now and in Other Days
Now and in Other Days (עכשיו ובימים האחרים) is the first poetry collection by the Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai, published by the Likrat press in Tel Aviv in 1955.
Now That We Draw
Now That We Draw (Kakunaru Ue wa, 描くなるうえは) is a seinen rom-com manga by Kyu Takahata and Yuwji Kaba, serialized in Hakusensha's Young Animal since 2023, about two aspiring mangaka high schoolers in a fake relationship; Seven Seas publishes it in English and an anime premieres January 2027.
Nox et solitudo
Nox et solitudo (Slovak: Noc a samota), Latin for Night and Solitude, is the first poetry collection of Slovak poet Ivan Krasko, published in Martin in 1909.
Nozarashi Kikō
Nozarashi Kikō (野ざらし紀行), also known as Kōshi Gyōkō, is Matsuo Bashō's first haikai travel record, gathering about 45 haiku from his nine-month journey from Edo to Kansai in 1684–1685.
Nrisimha Puranamu
Nrisimha Puranamu (నృసింహ పురాణం) is a 14th-century Telugu narrative poem by Errana telling the Narasimha avatar story, credited with initiating the Prabandha style in Telugu literature.
Ntuppuppakkoranendarnnu
Ntuppuppakkoranendarnnu, published in English as Me Grandad 'ad an Elephant, is a 1951 Malayalam social-satirical novel by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer targeting vanity, ignorance, and intolerance.
Nü Jie
Nü Jie (女誡, "Admonitions for Women") is a short Chinese manual of conduct for women written by the Eastern Han historian Ban Zhao for her daughters before their marriages.
Nuclear War: A Scenario
Nuclear War: A Scenario, Annie Jacobsen's 2024 Dutton bestseller, reconstructs 72 minutes from a North Korean ICBM strike on Washington to global nuclear annihilation, based on dozens of expert interviews; shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize.
Nueva novela histórica
Nueva novela histórica is a label for Latin American historical fiction since 1979 marked by distortion of the historical record and metafiction, systematized by critic Seymour Menton in 1993.