Annabel Gutterman

Annabel Gutterman is a senior editor at TIME.

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Stephen Schwartz on Wicked's Songs

The Oscar-winning composer shares his writing process for Wicked's iconic songs, from 'Popular' to 'Defying Gravity'

By Annabel Gutterman

Funny Story

After her fiancé Peter dumps her for his childhood best friend Petra, children’s librarian Daphne is swiftly kicked out of the house they once shared in Peter’s hometown, where Daphne knows nobody and has nowhere...

By Annabel Gutterman

Memory Piece

Tracing decades of a friendship between three Asian American women—Giselle, Jackie, and Ellen—Lisa Ko’s follow-up to her best-selling 2017 novel The Leavers is an intricate portrait of creativity and ambition. Memory Piece begins in the...

By Annabel Gutterman

We Loved It All

Known for her potent novels about the perils of climate change, A Children’s Bible author Lydia Millet turns inward with her debut nonfiction book. In We Loved It All: A Memory of Life, the 2020...

By Annabel Gutterman

Hum

In her latest unsettling thriller, Helen Phillips conjures a terrifying near future crippled by climate change where AI bots called “hums” have infiltrated every aspect of modern life. The novel begins as May, a young...

By Annabel Gutterman

State of Paradise

After a mysterious illness sweeps the world, normalcy is hard to come by in Laura van den Berg’s State of Paradise. That’s especially true for her unnamed protagonist, a ghostwriter who is living in her...

By Annabel Gutterman

Tell Me Everything

The universes of Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout’s beloved characters Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, and Bob Burgess collide in this lovingly told novel set in the fictional town of Crosby, Maine. There, the crotchety Olive...

By Annabel Gutterman

The Rich People Have Gone Away

It’s the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic when Theo Harper vacates his posh Brooklyn apartment with his pregnant wife Darla to seek refuge in their upstate summer home. Sound familiar? Regina Porter’s slick novel follows...

By Annabel Gutterman

Every Season of Grey's Anatomy, Ranked

Ranking all 20 season of Grey's Anatomy to determine the best one

By Annabel Gutterman

Shaina Taub on 'Suffs' and Hope

In an interview, the Tony Award winner discusses her changing relationship to work, and how she's preparing for election week.

By Annabel Gutterman

How We Chose the 50 Best Romance Novels

There is a subgenre, a trope, and a plot for every reader

By Annabel Gutterman , Lucy Feldman , Megan McCluskey and Meg Zukin

Red, White & Royal Blue

In Casey McQuiston’s 2019 debut, America’s First Son and the Prince of Wales embark on a juicy love affair. Red, White & Royal Blue, which became a runaway hit, selling more than 100,000 copies in...

By Annabel Gutterman

Last Night at the Telegraph Club

Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu has spent most of her life in a bubble, surrounded by her Chinese American community in San Francisco. It’s 1954, and she wants to explore more of the city. Along the way,...

By Annabel Gutterman

Indigo

At the forefront of inclusivity in the romance genre is Beverly Jenkins, the prolific author of more than 40 novels all centered on the experiences of Black characters and grounded in real-life details from history....

By Annabel Gutterman

The Price of Salt

Originally written under the pseudonym Claire Morgan, The Price of Salt is Patricia Highsmith’s only openly lesbian novel, and it became a cult classic after its 1952 release. The book begins with a young woman...

By Annabel Gutterman

All of Netflix's Real Estate Reality Shows

From Selling Sunset to Owning Manhattan, real estate reality shows offer escapism with just the right amount of drama.

By Judy Berman , Samantha Cooney , Annabel Gutterman , Cady Lang , Moises Mendez II and Meg Zukin

The Best Books of 2024 So Far

From Brittney Griner's memoir to Kelly Link's debut novel

By Judy Berman , Merrill Fabry , Lucy Feldman , Annabel Gutterman , Cady Lang , Rachel Sonis and Meg Zukin

The Decades-Long Journey to 'Eruption'

When the prolific author Michael Crichton died, he left behind a novel about his favorite place in the world. His wife enlisted James Patterson to finish it.

By Annabel Gutterman

Celebrated Author Alice Munro Dies at 92

Munro's 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature honored her massive contribution to how authors think about the architecture of a story.

By Annabel Gutterman

Taylor Swift's Best Bridges, Ranked

The 25 best Taylor Swift song bridges

By Samantha Cooney , Annabel Gutterman , Moises Mendez II and Rachel Sonis
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