Connect Wallet
Wallet Connected
Disconnect Wallet
MetaMask
WalletConnect
Sign In
My Account
Manage Account
Digital Magazines
Help Center
Sign Out
Subscribe for $15
Subscribe
Close
My Account
Manage Account
Digital Magazines
Help Center
Sign Out
Sign In
Sections
Home
U.S.
Politics
World
Health
Personal Finance by NextAdvisor
Business
Tech
Entertainment
Ideas
Science
History
Newsfeed
Sports
Magazine
TIME 2030
Video
TIME100 Talks
The TIME Vault
TIME for Health
TIME for Kids
TIME Edge
Red Border: Branded Content by TIME
Join Us
Newsletters
Subscribe
Give a Gift
Shop the TIME Store
Customer Care
US & Canada
Global Help Center
Reach Out
Careers
Press Room
Contact the Editors
Reprints and Permissions
More
Privacy Policy
Your California Privacy Rights
Terms of Use
Site Map
Connect with Us
Books
Richard Powers on His New Novel, 'Bewilderment'
By Elijah Wolfson
Tabitha Brown Is the Gentlest Person on the Internet
By Cady Lang
How Joe Biden Can End Gender-Based Violence
By Anita Hill
I Founded ‘Me Too’ in 2006. The Morning It Went Viral Was a Nightmare
By Tarana Burke
More in
Books
Booker Prize Shortlist Announced
The judges said the global scope of the books felt 'transporting in a year where so many of us have been confined to our homes.'
By Eloise Barry
September 14, 2021
How AI Will Completely Change the Way We Live in the Next 20 Years
Artificial intelligence could be the most transformative technology in the history of mankind, writes Kai-Fu Lee
By Kai-Fu Lee
September 14, 2021
Gabrielle Union: The Hard Truth About My Surrogacy Journey
In 2016, my doctor, Kelly Baek, a no-nonsense reproductive endocrinologist in L.A., gave it to me straight: “Your best chance for a healthy baby would be surrogacy.” I had been through an adenomyosis diagnosis and...
By Gabrielle Union
September 10, 2021
I Survived Bill Cosby. And I Will Not Be Defeated by His Release
On the final day of Bill Cosby’s sentencing hearing in 2018, as I had prepared to leave the court for the last time, Detective Jim Reape—a witness in the trial where Cosby was found guilty...
By Andrea Constand
September 7, 2021
Sally Rooney and the Millennial Novel
What does it mean to be a millennial? Bards of the generation across disciplines have varied takes: Taylor Swift’s catalog proposes a shared identity defined by a fixation on teenage heartbreak. Michaela Coel’s TV shows...
By Judy Berman
September 3, 2021
Why Nun Stories Are About to Become Your Next Pop-Culture Obsession
Movie stars, courtesans, spies, nuns: the aura of feminine mystery burns strong in all of them, but nuns may be the most enigmatic of all. Unless you’re among their ranks—and maybe even then—you can never...
By Stephanie Zacharek
September 2, 2021
The 34 Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2021
Forget summer reading—fall is the season of literary bounty. The next few months bring with them a starry landscape full of returns from the buzziest names in the business as well as bold newcomers with...
By Annabel Gutterman
August 30, 2021
Fire Damages Cafe Where J.K. Rowling Wrote Harry Potter
The Elephant House in Edinburgh suffered smoke and water damage after a blaze broke out
By Associated Press
August 26, 2021
How Lionel Messi Almost Destroyed Barcelona
When Lionel Messi’s private jet touched down in Paris on Tuesday afternoon, it meant an abrupt end to his 20 years with FC Barcelona—the most productive player-club relationship in soccer history. The world’s best player...
By Simon Kuper
August 11, 2021
How We Chose the 100 Best YA Books of All Time
There’s perhaps no category of literature more impactful than YA. These are the books introduced to us at a pivotal point in our lives: when our grasp on the world is changing just as we...
By Annabel Gutterman
August 11, 2021
YA Books Make Us Feel Safe to Be Who We Really Are
The first time I ever thought about what my house was made of was when I learned it could be blown down. By wolves—big, bad wolves. Sure, “The Three Little Pigs” was supposedly a fairy...
By Jason Reynolds
August 10, 2021
Goodreads' Problem With Extortion Scams and Review Bombing
Many authors and publishers now see the social networking site as a "necessary evil"
By Megan McCluskey
August 9, 2021
The 11 New Books You Should Read in August
A crop of fresh books arriving in August offers something for every reader, from tennis legend Billie Jean King’s autobiography to Helen Hoang’s latest swoony love story. August welcomes the return of veterans like Deborah...
By Annabel Gutterman
July 29, 2021
Mena Suvari Is Ready to Own Her Past
After decades of portraying fictional women, Suvari, 42, is ready to open up about her own life
By Mahita Gajanan
July 27, 2021
‘A Serious, Violent Incident.’ Promotion of an ‘Anti-Trans’ Paperback Stirs Criticism of Amazon, American Booksellers Association
The American Booksellers Association apologized on Wednesday for including what the nonprofit trade organization described as “an anti-trans book” in a recent promotional shipment to members. “This is a serious, violent incident that goes against...
By Madeleine Carlisle
July 15, 2021
Our Brains Make Us Way Too Optimistic About Deadlines
Not long ago, I visited a peculiar farm in southwestern Oregon. Year after year, Hastings Inc. produces a single crop: the Easter lily. Every Easter weekend, hundreds of thousands of lilies from this farm appear...
By Christopher Cox
July 15, 2021
How to Write a Romance Novel in 2021
Lingering touches and stolen glances, jaw-dropping revelations and long-awaited reunions—the pleasures of romance novels abound. Yet for so long, one of the most popular (and lucrative) genres in publishing has centered stories by, for and...
By Annabel Gutterman
July 8, 2021
You Can't Tell the Story of 1776 Without Talking About Race
Slavery and arguments about race were not only at the heart of the American founding; it was what united the states in the first place. We have been reluctant to admit just how thoroughly the...
By Robert G. Parkinson
July 4, 2021
'Stories Can Be War.' How Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Viral Essay Has Implications Far Beyond the Literary World
Last month, the novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie self-published a personal essay that went so viral it briefly crashed her website. The piece, titled “It Is Obscene: A True Reflection in Three Parts,” addressed social media...
By Annabel Gutterman
July 1, 2021
Build Your House Around My Body
Offers a Satisfying Story of Possession and Revenge
Female bodies have long served as metaphor when we talk about colonization, often standing in for land or the body politic, but rarely are they given the space to seek retribution for the oppressive horrors...
By Cady Lang
June 24, 2021
Fox & I
Is an Unnerving Memoir About Wildlife and Friendship
Several centuries ago, Voltaire declared that a dog is man’s best friend. At least, that’s what people remember best from his famous quote about the furry companion. But in her new memoir, biologist Catherine Raven...
By Annabel Gutterman
June 24, 2021
How to Talk to Kids About Gender Pronouns
'Pronouns are evolving, and language is evolving. People are figuring out what words fit them best'
By Suyin Haynes
June 3, 2021
The Best Books of 2021 So Far
Some of the best books of the year so far provide welcome respite from the outside world—while others aim directly for the turbulence, providing frameworks to understand how the past informs our present. Michelle Zauner...
By Andrew R. Chow
May 28, 2021
Lisa Taddeo Wants to Talk About Desire and Trauma
I meet Lisa Taddeo at the Central Park Zoo. The location is a rather ham-fisted allusion to the title of her new novel Animal, though the book has little to do with actual animals and...
By Eliana Dockterman
May 27, 2021
Bill Clinton and James Patterson on Their New Thriller
Three years after writing a bestselling novel together, former President Bill Clinton and author James Patterson are back with their second: The President's Daughter, published jointly by Knopf and Little, Brown and Company on June...
By Tessa Berenson
May 27, 2021
Nicola Yoon on Her New Book 'Instructions for Dancing'
The bestselling author of "Everything, Everything" and "The Sun Is Also a Star" is back with a new young-adult romance
By Megan McCluskey
May 26, 2021
Casey McQuiston Is Writing the Queer Rom-Coms She’s Always Wanted to Read
Three words came to Casey McQuiston while she was taking a bath: magic subway lesbians. The author has always been drawn to romances that seem a little impossible—ones that show that the power of love...
By Annabel Gutterman
May 26, 2021
36 New Books You Need to Read This Summer
For many, the upcoming summer will be quite different than the last. But whether you’re staying in or venturing out, a good book can always keep you grounded. The best new books arriving in June,...
By Annabel Gutterman
May 25, 2021
We Misunderstand What Happened After LA Exploded in 1992
A peace movement took hold in Los Angeles during the most deadly and destructive rebellion in American history. The uprising was a reaction to systematic injustice rather than a direct response to police violence. The...
By Elizabeth Hinton
May 18, 2021
Colson Whitehead and Margaret Atwood Discuss
The Underground Railroad
and the Challenges of Adaptation
As one show debuts and the other enters its fourth season, the acclaimed authors discuss the experience of having their novels adapted for the screen
By Lucy Feldman
May 13, 2021
Three New Thrillers About Publishing
The Plot, Who Is Maud Dixon? and The Other Black Girl mine questions of authorship and inclusion in the book world
By Annabel Gutterman
May 12, 2021
How to Make Connections in the Age of Zoom
TIME spoke with Jon Levy about his new book, the evolving definition of “influencers,” and what the past year has taught him about how to effectively connect with people online
By Megan McCluskey
May 7, 2021
Michael Lewis Found the People Who Should Have Been in Charge During the Pandemic
In his new book, The Premonition: A Pandemic Story, Michael Lewis does what Michael Lewis does better than anyone: He makes a problem of apparently ungodly complexity not only comprehensible but also a pleasure to...
By Karl Vick
May 3, 2021
Memoirist Alison Bechdel Is No Longer Trying to Outrun Death
The fate of an author who grew up in a funeral home may be that every book she writes becomes a contemplation of mortality. That certainly seems to be the case for Alison Bechdel, the...
By Eliana Dockterman
May 3, 2021
The Best New Books to Read in May 2021
These novels, essay collections and more ask questions about place, purpose and paths—particularly ones not taken
By Annabel Gutterman
April 30, 2021
How Celebrity Memoirs Got So Good
Sharon Stone wants you to know that she’s a survivor. And it would be easy to assume that her new memoir, The Beauty of Living Twice, draws its title from its opening passage—which describes her...
By Cady Lang
April 13, 2021
What I Wish I’d Done Before Losing Loved Ones
Sometimes when my daughter Caitlin was growing up, images and ideas would sneak into my head before I could squeeze them away. What a headstone might say. The Freddie Mercury music that would accompany a...
By Maryanne O'Hara
April 8, 2021
Morgan Jerkins Memorializes a Swiftly-Changing Harlem in Her New Novel
Caul Baby
Morgan Jerkins delights in finding the fantastical within the familiar. In her new novel, Caul Baby, everyday life takes on a surreal glow: a bodega covertly peddles mystical talismans; a brownstone visibly embodies its owners'...
By Cady Lang
April 2, 2021
The 15 New Books You Should Read in April
The best new books arriving in April tackle a wide range of subjects, from a sweeping anthology that illuminates the history of Black farmers in the United States to the firsthand account of an EMT...
By Annabel Gutterman
April 1, 2021
Beverly Cleary, Legendary Children's Author, Dies at 104
Cleary enchanted generations of readers with stories about Ramona and other 'regular' kids
By Kathy Ehrich Dowd
March 26, 2021
A Reading List to Celebrate Asian Authors
See a curated reading list from members of TIME's Asian community that celebrates Asian authors
By Naina Bajekal
March 24, 2021
What to Know About Roald Dahl's Controversial Legacy
Concerns about anti-Semitism, racism and misogyny have raised questions about the widely beloved author
By Megan McCluskey
March 18, 2021
9 Authors on the Books That Got Them Through a Year of the Pandemic
A year into the pandemic, readers know more than ever: the act of picking up a book can be transformative. When lockdown orders swept the U.S. beginning in March 2020, many turned to books to...
By Annabel Gutterman
March 12, 2021
How to Help a Caregiver
My husband had been in the hospital, critically ill, for weeks one day when I broke down in tears during a workout. Concerned gym buddies consoled me and someone said, “You’ve got to stay positive!”...
By Kate Washington
March 9, 2021
Eliot Higgins on Making Bellingcat an Investigative Force
"We might be at the tip of the iceberg"
By Madeline Roache
March 2, 2021
Here Are the 14 New Books You Should Read in March
The best new books arriving this month are written by authors both established and emerging. March brings with it much-anticipated new fiction from Viet Thanh Nguyen and Kazuo Ishiguro, as well as buzzy debuts from...
By Annabel Gutterman
February 26, 2021
Load More Articles
More from
TIME
More From TIME
