Shannon Carlin

Carlin is a contributor for TIME.

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12 New Books to Read in March

Here are the best new books to read this month from Karen Russell's new novel to Amanda Nguyen's memoir

By Shannon Carlin

The Best Saturday Night Live Hosts of All Time

The award-winning actors, charismatic athletes, and former show cast members who make the best SNL hosts

By Shannon Carlin

The 22 Most Controversial Saturday Night Live Moments

The most controversial moments in SNL history

By Shannon Carlin

The 20 Best Cheesy Rom-Coms on Netflix

Kristen Bell, Lindsay Lohan, and Nicole Kidman star in Netflix romantic comedies ready for Valentine's Day.

By Shannon Carlin

Taylor Swift's Friendships With Kendrick, Drake

A brief timeline of the superstar's friendships with both hip-hop titans, which date back around a decade.

By Shannon Carlin

11 New Books to Read in February

Here are the best new books to read this month

By Shannon Carlin

The 39 Most Anticipated Books of 2025

All the inspiring true stories, thrilling mysteries and fantasies, and great novels we can't wait to read in 2025, from Anne Tyler, Tina Knowles, Torrey Peters, R.F. Kuang, Kevin Wilson, and more.

By Shannon Carlin

Netflix's New Holiday Rom-Coms

The best of Netflix's four new holiday rom-coms to watch this year

By Shannon Carlin

The True Story Behind FX's Say Nothing

FX's gripping adaptation of Patrick Radden Keefe's book dives into the complicated history of the Troubles

By Shannon Carlin

Wandering Stars

Tommy Orange’s family saga, Wandering Stars, picks up where his 2019 Pulitzer Prize finalist, There There, left off. In the wake of a 2018 shooting, high-school freshman Orvil Red Feather struggles to make sense of...

By Shannon Carlin

Shanghailanders

Juli Min’s debut, Shanghailanders, is an ambitious family drama told entirely in reverse. The novel begins in 2040 with Leo Yang, an aging Chinese real-estate investor who finds himself drifting apart from his elegant Japanese...

By Shannon Carlin

The Black Utopians

What does utopia look like for Black Americans? It’s the question at the heart of essayist, editor, and translator Aaron Robertson’s The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America, which explores...

By Shannon Carlin

The Mighty Red

Pulitzer Prize winner Louise Erdrich’s latest novel, The Mighty Red, a captivating multigenerational tale set amid the 2008 financial crisis, begins with a frenzied proposal. Gary Geist, a wealthy and preternaturally lucky football player, asks...

By Shannon Carlin

Be Ready When the Luck Happens

In her debut memoir, best-selling cookbook author and food TV icon Ina Garten admits she has a “low threshold for boredom.” This, she writes, has made her more than willing to take wild risks “just...

By Shannon Carlin

The Wide Wide Sea

With his new book, The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook, best-selling author and historian Hampton Sides reckons with the ambitions and intentions of Captain...

By Shannon Carlin

Health and Safety

New Yorker staffer Emily Witt’s debut memoir Health and Safety offers a sardonic look at her journey to try as many psychedelic drugs as possible. In 2013, after spending a few years on a prescribed...

By Shannon Carlin

Slaveroad

John Edgar Wideman’s genre-bending autobiography chronicles not only his life, but also those of African men and women who made their way to the U.S. through the trans–Atlantic slave trade. A poignant mix of memoir,...

By Shannon Carlin

My Friends

Pulitzer Prize winner Hisham Matar’s third novel, My Friends, begins with a tender yet tense goodbye between two middle-aged friends, one of whom is compelled to search their past in order to understand how they...

By Shannon Carlin

The Eyes Are the Best Part

Monika Kim’s inventive debut novel, The Eyes Are the Best Part, begins with teenage protagonist Ji-won’s well-manicured mom expertly plucking the eye from her fish at dinner and swallowing it with great aplomb. In their...

By Shannon Carlin

Your Utopia

Your Utopia, Bora Chung’s 2021 collection of short stories, uses horror and humor to tackle the fate of humanity. Eight inventive tales, newly translated from the original Korean by Anton Hur, offer an absurd look...

By Shannon Carlin
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