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Nov 23, 2020
From Mac Miller to Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion, Morgan Wallen to Christine and the Queens, these artists produced TIME's 10 best songs of the year
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Nov 23, 2020
As lighthearted and silly as it is, the revival turns out to be a weirdly poignant reminder of what a rough few decades millennials have had
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Nov 22, 2020
The penultimate episode revealed yet another disturbing secret about Jonathan Fraser
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Nov 22, 2020
A version of this article was published in It's Not Just You, a weekly newsletter from TIME editor-at-large Susanna Schrobsdorff. Subscribe here to get your weekly serving. You've done all you can do today, tomorrow you get to try again. #breathe. Connie Schultz ?? Well hello! I'm so glad you're here. This week we…
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Nov 22, 2020
The best podcasts this year responded to the unique moment, offering vital news, ways to stay healthy, and even a few means of escape
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Nov 21, 2020
In a year when the headlines were dominated by conflict around the things that make us different—race, class, gender, politics and all the other markers of identity—the best nonfiction books tore into those tensions and explored the humanity beneath. Some authors revisited historical figures to ask how their perspectives on race and religion shaped the…
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Nov 20, 2020
From "Life Goes On" to "Dynamite"
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Nov 20, 2020
From 'Spider-Man: Miles Morales' to 'Among Us'
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Nov 20, 2020
Their world tour may have been postponed, but in 2020 the seven members proved that their worldwide influence is only growing
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Nov 20, 2020
The first installment of the director's new anthology tells the true story of immigrants who protested racist police in early 1970s London
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Nov 19, 2020
After garnering critical acclaim in Spain, a new series based on the life of Cristina Ortiz, a.k.a. 'La Veneno,' is poised to introduce her to new audiences
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Nov 19, 2020
As chosen by TIME staff and a select group of historians
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Nov 19, 2020
Reading fiction in 2020 was an act of defiance—of turning our attention away from the catastrophes playing out around us to engage in a quiet, imaginative act. And the year's best fiction offered many paths toward greater understanding and meaningful escape. Whether in the tumultuous halls of power in Tudor England with The Mirror &…
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Nov 19, 2020
From buzzy box office phenomena to poignant and personal plays
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Nov 19, 2020
The actor and rapper talks about his new drama, and the gifts and curses of representing a minority community through art
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Nov 18, 2020
Fans of BTS who run translation accounts, hashtag planning and philanthropic projects talk to TIME about their devotion
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Nov 17, 2020
BTS speaks a language that millions of fans don't understand, but the band's music and message have transcended boundaries
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Nov 17, 2020
Barack Obama knows how to tell a good story. He published his first memoir, Dreams from My Father, about his upbringing as the son of a Kansas-born mother and Kenyan father, at the age of 33. He entered the national political stage at the 2004 Democratic National Convention with a rousing speech on the promise…
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Nov 17, 2020
Eleven short films show how Latino communities are fighting the pandemic and its effects largely on their own
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Nov 17, 2020
The new thriller from 'Big Little Lies' creator David E. Kelley has plenty of problems. At least it's not boring
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Nov 16, 2020
Here's what to know about her unique position in the royal family
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Nov 15, 2020
From TV shows to coverage of Amy Coney Barrett and Melania Trump, the media often struggles with balanced depictions of conservative women
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Nov 15, 2020
'Well, there were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded'
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Nov 14, 2020
A version of this article was published in It's Not Just You, a weekly newsletter from TIME. ?? SUBSCRIBE HERE to get a weekly serving of big-hearted advice delivered to your inbox. "We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial." Philip James Bailey Well…
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Nov 13, 2020
The new Netflix drama about a former prostitute caring for a Senegalese orphan marks her first movie in more than a decade
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Nov 13, 2020
A closer look into the lives of paleontologist Mary Anning and geologist Charlotte Murchison, played by Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan in the new romantic drama
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Nov 13, 2020
Hulu's 'I AM GRETA' goes beyond the headlines to look at the many dimensions of the world's most famous teenager
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Nov 12, 2020
Jay-Z helped tap the global megastar as this year's headline act
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Nov 12, 2020
"I hope that the documentary opens people's eyes and opens people's minds," says one of its subjects
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Nov 12, 2020
For five days, viewers saw their own anxieties and impatience reflected on the people on news programs
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Nov 12, 2020
By the time NBC and MSNBC National Political Correspondent Steve Kornacki sat down with me for a 30-minute Zoom interview on Tuesday, Nov. 10, I was surprised he was still able to sit upright: The 41-year-old had just survived leading the news network's map board throughout the election night that nearly turned into an election…
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Nov 10, 2020
The 2021 Oscars and other ceremonies will be other years, but they may just expand our notion of what an awards contender ought to be
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Nov 10, 2020
The otherwise excellent game is a missed opportunity to reckon with the issues of the day
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Nov 10, 2020
"Just under the skin we're still fully wild. And I think this touches on what it's like to glimpse that."
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Nov 10, 2020
Those who failed to find comfort in Emily's Paris—or are already thirsty for the next dose of escapism—just might track it down in Dash and Lily's New York
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Nov 10, 2020
The FX on Hulu series shines light on areas of the Me Too discourse that remain murky
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Nov 09, 2020
Alex Trebek hosted Jeopardy! every weeknight, every season, for more than 36 years, an astonishing uninterrupted run of over eight thousand shows. (The only asterisk: April 1, 1997, when he swapped in as the host of Wheel of Fortune instead, as an April Fools' gag.) Over that span, he asked contestants almost half a million…
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Nov 09, 2020
This new twist on the finance drama is more than just 'Wall Street' with smartphones
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Nov 08, 2020
The Canadian-born game show host died after a battle with pancreatic cancer.
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Nov 06, 2020
Following Johnny Depp's resignation from the Harry Potter spin-off franchise, and in light of a laundry list of other problems, it's time to lay this one to rest
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Nov 06, 2020
The actor talks to TIME about playing Harris on 'Saturday Night Live,' a hormone monster on 'Big Mouth' and the trait many of her characters share
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Nov 06, 2020
When Jack Cheng was a baby, his parents Patty and Liang moved from China to Texas, and left him with his grandparents in Tianjin for six years. Patty, an engineer, and Liang, a photographer, wanted to be financially secure enough to raise Jack and, later, his little sister Annabel, in the U.S. In Simon Han's…
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Nov 06, 2020
David Fincher's clever and entertaining drama starring Gary Oldman as 'Citizen Kane' screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz is a feat of old-Hollywood hagiography
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Nov 05, 2020
Rents are the most explicit metric of the premium people are willing to pay to enjoy the heady pleasure of living in the world's great cities-and currently they are down sharply in New York and San Francisco. London and Paris recently imposed new rounds of lockdowns. So perhaps it's not the ideal moment to publish…
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Nov 04, 2020
Here's what you need to know
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Oct 31, 2020
Ariana Grande's sixth studio album offers a counterweight to the madness, its effervescent energy providing a saucy, danceable respite from the shouting hordes.
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Oct 31, 2020
Bond producers EON Productions confirmed his death
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Oct 31, 2020
Netflix's award-winning original series The Crown returns for a fourth season on November 15. The cast for the British Royal Family in season 3 will be back, including Olivia Colman as Queen Elizabeth II and Helena Bonham Carter as Princess Margaret, and viewers can also expect to meet Gillian Anderson as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher…
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Oct 31, 2020
From 'Borat Subsequent Moviefilm' to 'Something's Gotta Give'
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Oct 30, 2020
Get more of this exclusive interview with Sarah Silverman by subscribing to It's Not Just You, a new weekly newsletter from TIME editor-at-large Susanna Schrobsdorff. Signup here to get a serving of small comforts and big-hearted advice delivered directly to your inbox. Six episodes into her debut podcast, comedian and actor Sarah Silverman suspects that…
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Oct 30, 2020
Guess who's back
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Oct 30, 2020
October is for horror, which probably means that my monthly roundup of the best new TV should be crawling with ghosts and ghouls. Alas, the recent crop of spooky shows hasn't done a whole lot for me—maybe because the news has been serving up all the real-life jump-scares my poor heart can take. Instead, I've…
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Oct 30, 2020
A version of this article was published in It's Not Just You, a weekly newsletter from TIME. Subscribe here to get a weekly serving of big-hearted advice delivered to your inbox. The two people I most wanted to hear from on the eve of this election were Pema Chodron, the iconic Buddhist nun, and Sarah…
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Oct 29, 2020
Here's how the show has changed because of a global pandemic
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Oct 29, 2020
The reality star confirmed her previous diagnosis in a sneak peek clip of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians"
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Oct 28, 2020
Coming from a working-class metropolis that is neither coastal nor Southern, the inequality, fear and righteous anger evident in this portrait of Chicago resonate; so does the spirit of persistence through cultural life, political struggle and community building
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Oct 28, 2020
Experts suggest the reasons for this are both emotional and technological, as some listeners seek comfort in the soothing, nostalgic qualities of the genre, while others who previously disdained streaming platforms finally caved and subscribed
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Oct 28, 2020
'The Craft: Legacy' builds on pop culture's long and complicated fascination with witchcraft
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Oct 28, 2020
'The Craft: Legacy' builds on pop culture's long and complicated fascination with witchcraft
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Oct 27, 2020
Cooper, who has a new Netflix special out, built her name lip-syncing the President. But she has plenty of other plans for the future
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Oct 26, 2020
The next installment will drop on Disney Oct. 30
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Oct 23, 2020
In 2020, Cohen's approach of teasing out threads of bigotry and hypocrisy in ordinary American citizens seems less cruel than it did in 2006. Which says more about us than it does about him
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Oct 23, 2020
Bill Murray reunites with the 'Lost in Translation' director to play a rogue charmer and father to Rashida Jones' daughter who's feeling adrift
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Oct 23, 2020
The story has gossipy moms, an elite school and a murder investigation. Yet neither the sharp performances nor the lush window dressing can save scripts that have so little to say
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Oct 22, 2020
Mika, my children's 16-year-old half-sister, is posting old photos on Instagram, group shots with her best friends standing in close proximity to each other, with the simple caption Take me back. Even 16-year-olds are feeling nostalgic. Madeline, my 4-year-old granddaughter, has invented imaginary friends. Madeline's mother—my daughter Anna—has to call Salia's mother to ask if…
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Oct 21, 2020
The two Democratic congresswomen played the online murder mystery game to encourage people to vote
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Oct 21, 2020
We watched a huge number of lesser known horror movies to find the good ones for fans who can't get enough
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Oct 20, 2020
Ben Wheatley's adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier's novel, starring Lily James and Armie Hammer, refuses to get its fingernails dirty with any of the story's subterranean secrets
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Oct 20, 2020
Any hour-long drama that forsakes intellectual property, narrative histrionics and special effects in favor of psychological realism represents a welcome change of pace—and one this good is rare
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Oct 20, 2020
"Ken and I were both awed by this documentary," said Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress
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Oct 16, 2020
When Senior Trump campaign adviser Mercedes Schlapp made a Twitter joke about Joe Biden's town hall on Thursday night, many considered it a compliment
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Oct 16, 2020
The new Apple TV documentary makes it hard to resist the lore of the cowboy poet. But why would you want to resist it?
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Oct 16, 2020
Director Garrett Bradley on why her documentary is both an epic love story and a call for justice
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Oct 16, 2020
A new exhibition at The Shed features a work based on a traumatic childhood memory that the artist has been wanting to make since the 1970s
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Oct 16, 2020
"I am afraid I will be in contempt if I continue to Om," the poet Allen Ginsberg told the judge at one point
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Oct 16, 2020
Spike Lee's filmed record of the hit Broadway show of the same name is a work of great joy and expressiveness, a tower of song with room for everybody
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Oct 16, 2020
The actor says it's imperative for those in power to view climate change as a scientific reality
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Oct 15, 2020
You couldn't invent a better metaphor for American politics in 2020 than the one that played out on TV Thursday, as the two men vying for the White House faced voters simultaneously but on competing networks
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Oct 15, 2020
Just 18 plays and musicals were eligible for nominations this year
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Oct 15, 2020
Schreck's award-winning 'What the Constitution Means to Me' is coming to Amazon Prime Video
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Oct 15, 2020
Now, thanks to the magic of TV, you can revisit the crushing early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. I'm just not sure why you would want to
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Oct 15, 2020
In a year defined by grim reality, we look to artists to help us understand—and escape. TIME celebrates the best, most captivating and essential fantasy books of all time, dating back to the 9th century. See the full list of the 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time To develop our list, we began in…
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Oct 14, 2020
Big Hit Entertainment has navigated a challenging climate for the music industry
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Oct 09, 2020
The second season of 'The Haunting' anthology series draws on Henry James' 'The Turn of the Screw'
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Oct 09, 2020
It wouldn't be a ghost story if it didn't start with an unheeded warning
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Oct 09, 2020
Radha Blank produces, writes, directs and stars in this breezy but painfully observant comedy about an artist making her way out of the clutches of self-doubt
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Oct 08, 2020
The complaint states Lanez "inflicted great bodily injury" on Megan Thee Stallion
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Oct 08, 2020
Actor and recording artist Anthony Ramos is eager to represent his Latino roots on the big screen, but not if it means Hollywood will pigeonhole him. Ramos first rose to fame in the breakout musical Hamilton, the phenomenon that featured a multiracial cast telling the story of United States' white Founding Fathers. Since then, Ramos…
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Oct 08, 2020
The HBO Max drama follows a West Baltimore teen entranced by the freewheeling stunts of a local dirt-bike gang
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Oct 08, 2020
On the eve of the release of an HBO film, American Utopia, and a children's book, the renaissance rock star talked to TIME about curiosity, percussionists on foot and the joy of connecting with others American Utopia is an album, a show, an HBO film and a book. Some of the songs are new, but…
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Oct 08, 2020
On the eve of the release of an HBO film, American Utopia, and a children's book, the renaissance rock star talked to TIME about curiosity, percussionists on foot and the joy of connecting with others American Utopia is an album, a show, an HBO film and a book. Some of the songs are new, but…
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Oct 07, 2020
From isolation to contagion, the horrors of coronavirus could prove a rich vein for filmmakers to draw on in coming years
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Oct 06, 2020
On a balmy afternoon in August, I sat by my bedroom window at my parents' house as the lights flickered on and off. Outside, the wind bent trees until they snapped, and rain pooled into a lake at the end of the driveway. After the storm settled, I walked around my neighborhood clutching my phone,…
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Oct 06, 2020
A person close to Van Halen's family confirmed the rocker died Tuesday due to cancer
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Oct 06, 2020
There are likely no major blockbusters coming out for the rest of 2020 due to COVID-19 delays. What does the future of movies look like now?
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Oct 06, 2020
Can food build bridges between the U.S. and China? Chen Xiaoqing, creator of the hit Netflix series 'Flavorful Origins,' hopes so
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Oct 05, 2020
The singer has been accused of cultural appropriation
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Oct 05, 2020
Pity the comedy writers
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Oct 05, 2020
From the return of a title track with a bold vocal chorus to the varied musical and visual styles across eight tracks
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Oct 04, 2020
Takada's death came at the tail end of Paris Fashion Week, days after KENZO unveiled its bee-themed collection
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