Literature
- Outsider (Known Space), a fictional species in Larry Niven's Known Space universe
- Outsiders (comics), a superhero series published by DC Comics
- Outsiders (DC Comics), a team of freakish superheroes created by DC Comics
- Outsiders (Dresden Files), a fictional species of magical creatures in Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files novels
- Outsider, a pseudonym used by Aarne Haapakoski
- Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance, a book by Howard S. Becker
- The Outsiders (novel), a 1967 novel by S. E. Hinton
- The Outsider (Camus novel) or The Stranger, a 1942 novel by Albert Camus
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“A book is not an autonomous entity: it is a relation, an axis of innumerable relations. One literature differs from another, be it earlier or later, not because of the texts but because of the way they are read: if I could read any page from the present time—this one, for instance—as it will be read in the year 2000, I would know what the literature of the year 2000 would be like.”
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