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Remarkably Bright Creatures
Remarkably Bright Creatures (Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco/HarperCollins, May 2022) is a debut novel about a grieving night cleaner at a Puget Sound aquarium and Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus narrator; over 1.5 million copies sold, a Netflix film announced.
Remarkably Bright Creatures (novel)
Remarkably Bright Creatures is Shelby Van Pelt's 2022 debut novel (Ecco/HarperCollins, Bloomsbury) about widow Tova Sullivan, the octopus Marcellus at Sowell Bay Aquarium, and Cameron; over two million copies sold, Netflix film 2026.
Remedia Amoris
Remedia Amoris ("Cures for Love") is a one-book Latin didactic poem by Ovid, written in the Augustan age as the companion and sequel to his Ars amatoria.
Remembering Babylon
Remembering Babylon is a 1993 novel by the Australian writer David Malouf, following Gemmy Fairley, a castaway who spent sixteen years with Aboriginal people in colonial Queensland.
Remembrance
Remembrance (German: Andenken) is a hymn by Friedrich Hölderlin, probably composed in 1803 and first printed in 1808, recalling the Bordeaux landscape where he had tutored.
Remus Lupin
Remus John Lupin, Harry Potter character: werewolf, Gryffindor Marauder, Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher in Prisoner of Azkaban, member of both Orders of the Phoenix, husband of Nymphadora Tonks, father of Teddy; Rowling's metaphor for stigmatized illness.
Renegade Immortal (仙逆)
Renegade Immortal (仙逆, Xian Ni) is Er Gen's completed xianxia web novel, serialized on Qidian 2009-2012 in 2,088 chapters, about protagonist Wang Lin defying fate to cultivate; adapted into donghua, games, manga, and film.
Renfield
R.M. Renfield is Bram Stoker's 1897 Dracula character, a lunatic-asylum inmate who eats living creatures for their life force under Dracula's telepathic influence. Famous as Dwight Frye's 1931 portrayal and the 2023 Nicholas Hoult film; namesake of Renfield's Syndrome.
Renjing Lu Shicao
Renjing Lu Shicao, "Draft Poems from the Hut Within the World of Men," is the collected poetry of late Qing diplomat-poet Huang Zunxian and a central work of the Poetry Revolution.
Renly Baratheon
Renly Baratheon, also called the King in Highgarden, is the youngest Baratheon brother in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones; Lord of Storm's End, claimant king backed by the largest army, killed by a shadow assassin.
Report from the Besieged City
"Report from the Besieged City" is a 1982 poem by the Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert, written under martial law and read as an allegory of occupied Poland.
Representative Men
Representative Men is an 1850 book by American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson, published in Boston, arguing that great men like Shakespeare and Napoleon let ordinary people see themselves.
Republican-era Turkish novel
The Republican-era Turkish novel (Cumhuriyet Dönemi Türk Romanı) covers novels written in Turkey from the Republic's proclamation in 1923 to the present, with major early works appearing in 1922.
Republican-era Turkish short story
The Republican-era Turkish short story (hikâye, öykü) is short fiction written in Turkey from the Republic's founding in 1923 onward, in plain language focused on social themes.
Requiem for a Dream (novel)
Requiem for a Dream, Hubert Selby Jr.'s 1978 novel (Rekviem za sen, Réquiem por un sueño), follows Sara Goldfarb, her son Harry, Marion, and Tyrone as dreams of TV fame and heroin wealth collapse into addiction; adapted faithfully by Darren Aronofsky in 2000.
Reservation Blues
Reservation Blues is a 1995 novel by Sherman Alexie, his first, following Coyote Springs, an all-Indian rock and blues band on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Washington.
Residence on Earth
Residence on Earth (Residencia en la tierra) is a poetry book by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, gathering poems from 1925 to 1935 and published in three volumes from 1933.
Resignation
Resignation is a philosophical poem by Friedrich Schiller, subtitled Eine Phantasie, first published in 1786 in his journal Thalia and containing the famous line "Die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltgericht".
Respected Sir
Respected Sir (Ḥaḍrat al-muḥtaram, حضرة المحترم) is a 1975 short novel by Naguib Mahfouz about an Egyptian civil servant devoted to one ambition: becoming director general.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities is a poetry collection by William Butler Yeats, first published in 1914 and expanded in 1916, marking his turn from romanticism toward a combative public voice and containing "September 1913" and "A Coat".
Ressurreição
Ressurreição is an 1872 novel by the Brazilian writer Machado de Assis, his first, about the failed love between the widow Lívia and the inconstant Félix.
Restaurant to Another World (異世界食堂)
Restaurant to Another World (Isekai Shokudō) is a Japanese fantasy food series by Junpei Inuzuka about a Tokyo restaurant whose door opens to a fantasy world.
Retrato do Brasil
Retrato do Brasil is a 1928 interpretive essay on Brazil by Paulo Prado, diagnosing the nation's sadness as rooted in the lust and greed of its colonizers.
Retreating Figure
Retreating Figure (Beiying, 背影) is a 1925 prose essay by Zhu Ziqing recalling his father's laborious climb across railway tracks to buy oranges at Nanjing's Pukou station.
Retroactive continuity
Retroactive continuity, or retcon, is the later revision of established facts in serial fiction, coined by Roy Thomas in All-Star Squadron (1983) and common in comics, soap operas, and film franchises.
Return from Death
Return from Death (死に戻りの魔法学校生活を、元恋人とプロローグから) is a Japanese fantasy-romance light novel series by Eiko Mutsuhana, serialized on Shōsetsuka ni Narō in 2020–2021, published in print by Earth Star Entertainment and digitally in English by Cross Infinite World.
Return of the Blossoming Blade (화산귀환)
Return of the Blossoming Blade (화산귀환, Return of the Mount Hua Sect) is Biga's 2019 Naver Series murim web novel and its hit Naver Webtoon adaptation by LICO and ARCHE, following Cheongmyeong's rebirth to rebuild the Mount Hua Sect.
Return to Haifa
Return to Haifa (ʿĀʾid ilā Ḥayfā) is a 1969 novella by Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani about a couple who return to Haifa in 1967 to find their son raised as an Israeli.
Return to Tsugaru
Return to Tsugaru is the 1985 English translation by James Westerhoven of Tsugaru, Dazai Osamu's 1944 travel book about his journey through the Tsugaru Peninsula.
Return to Yan'an
Return to Yan'an (《回延安》) is a 1956 lyric poem by He Jingzhi, written in the Shaanbei xintianyou folk-song form and now a Chinese middle school text.