Title: NW (novel)
Content:  NW is a 2012 novel by British author Zadie Smith. It takes its title from the NW postcode area in North-West London, where the novel is set. The novel is experimental and follows four different characters living in London, shifting between first and third person, stream-of-consciousness, screenplay-style dialogue, and other narrative techniques in an attempt to reflect the polyphonic nature of contemporary, urban life. It was nominated for the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction.
Title: NW postcode area
Content:  In 2008, the ska band Madness released a single called 'NW5', named after the postal district of the same name. In 2012, the British author Zadie Smith released a book called NW, named after the postal district of the same name, where the novel is set. The novel was adapted into a 2016 television film by the BBC.
Title: NW (magazine)
Content:  NW (formerly New Weekly) was a weekly magazine (typically 110 pages) published in Australia by Bauer Media. It contained articles about media celebrities, Hollywood gossip, clothing, makeup, dieting, and entertainment. In July 2020, the magazine was included in the sale of Bauer Media Australia to Mercury Capital, which closed NW down due to the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Title: NW (novel)
Content:  Smith's style in NW is characterized by a rapid succession of associations, conveyed in brief sentences, dialogues and short scenes in a mix of literary and colloquial language. Instead of an omniscient narrator, she uses various narrative techniques to portray the multiple layers and idiosyncrasies of her four central characters' perspectives. Natalie is efficient, goal-oriented, well-organized - her life is systematically laid out in 185 numbered vignettes. Leah in contrast is mellow and prefers to go with the flow - her part of the book is dominated by stream-of-consciousness. Smith's use of this narrative technique invites comparisons to James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and John Dos Passos. The central characters' life stories are told 
Title: NW (magazine)
Content:  The magazine was started in 1993 under the title New Weekly by then Australian Consolidated Press executive Richard Walsh, with a renaming to NW in 1998. The magazine was headquartered in Sydney. The publisher iwas Bauer Media Pty Ltd. Circulation was around 200,000. NW won the Australian Magazine of the Year Award in 2006. In mid July 2020, NW was acquired by Mercury Capital, which purchased several of Bauer Media's former Australian and New Zealand brands. Shortly later, Mercury Capital liquidated NW, citing the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on its publications' advertising revenue.
Title: NW (novel)
Content: Houser, Tammy Amiel. (2017). ‘Zadie Smith's NW: Unsettling the Promise of Empathy’. Contemporary Literature, 58 (1). University of Wisconsin Press, 116–148. ; James, David. (2013). ‘Wounded Realism’. Contemporary Literature, 54(1), 204–214. ; Kakutani, Michiko. (2012). ‘Navigating Tangled Narratives: ‘NW’ by Zadie Smith’. The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/27/books/nw-by-zadie-smith.html ; Knepper, Wendy. (2013). ‘Revisionary Modernism and Postmillennial Experimentation in Zadie Smith’s NW’. In Philip Tew (Ed.) Reading Zadie Smith: The First Decade and Beyond. London: Bloomsbury, 111–126. ; Masters, Ben. (2017). ‘Twenty-First-Century Excess: Levels of Narration in Contemporary Fiction’. In Novel Style: Ethics and Excess in English Fiction since the 1960s. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 137–172. ; Shaw, Kristian. (2017). ‘“Global Consciousness. Local Consciousness”: Cosmopolitan Hospitality and Ethical Agency in Zadie Smith's NW’. In Cosmopolitanism in Twenty-First Century Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan, 67-102. ; Smith, Zadie. (2013). 'Zadie Smith on NW – Guardian book club'. The Guadian: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/aug/01/zadie-smith-nw-book-club ; Wood, James (2012). ‘Books of the Year’. The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/books-of-the-year 
Title: NW (novel)
Content:  goal she ever set for herself. She graduated from a prestigious university, became a successful lawyer, married an investment banker from a rich family, and moved to one of to the most expensive parts of London to raise her two children with him. But she leads a double-life, using the Internet to arrange secret sexual encounters with swinger couples. Part 4 - "crossing": Natalie's husband discovers the online account Natalie uses for her affairs and calls her out. Upset by the confrontation, Natalie spends the night aimlessly wandering the streets of her old neighborhood. She meets Nathan Bogle, a former classmate who became a drug addict. He seems to be involved 
Title: NW (novel)
Content:  Set in the northwest of London, England, four locals — Leah Hanwell, Natalie (born Keisha) Blake, Felix Cooper, and Nathan Bogle — try to make adult lives outside of Caldwell, the working-class council estate where they grew up. While Leah has not managed to venture far from her childhood location, her best friend Natalie, now a successful, self-made barrister, lives in an affluent neighbourhood in a Victorian house. Despite their friendship and history, the two women find that they are very different from each other socio-economically. Meanwhile, a chance encounter brings Felix and Nathan together. Leah is the focus of a lower-working-class life in comparison to Natalie who represents the small 
Title: NW (novel)
Content:  All four characters represent a piece of the lost generation struggling to ascend economically. Part 1 - "visitation": Leah Hanwell falls for a scam artist, who knocks at her door to ask for financial support in an emergency. The encounter with the scammer leads her to question her trust in the community. Part 2 - "guest": Former drug addict Felix Cooper wants to start a new life with his girlfriend Grace. He meets one last time with his drug-using ex-lover to say goodbye and officially leave that part of his life behind. On his way home he is murdered during an armed robbery. Part 3 - "host": Natalie Blake has met 
Title: NW (novel)
Content:  an increasing variety of lifestyle choices, the issue of self examination gains importance. Leah, who sees no appeal in the traditional maternal role, rejecting still widespread societal expectations, cuts to the core of this new liberty: "I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me." This freedom of self-definition however also come with increased responsibility. Getting to choose means having to carefully consider your choices and having more occasion for doubts. In NW, the possibility of being the sole author of your own life is portrayed as a blessing and a curse at the same time. Self-examination, however, does 

Question: Who is the author of NW?
Answer: Zadie Smith.
Zadie Adeline Smith.