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IN HER PROFILE OF OUR 2021 ENTERTAINER of the Year Olivia Rodrigo, my colleague Lucy Feldman made an observation that jumped out at me. Rodrigo, the 18-year-old pop sensation whose music has won over audiences of all ages, “has a gift for picking the

1. ‘VALUABLE INSIGHTS FOR OUR TROUBLED WORLD.’ JANE MCKINLAY, of New Orleans, on the Feb. 1/Feb. 8 issue announcing the launch of TIME’s 2030 initiative 2. ‘Our treatment of the earth is an insult to the universe… a wholesale damning of humanity.’ JO

(1) An intellectual movement contextualizing the effects of structural racism; (2) A buzzword in the debate over how students should be learning about race Nonfungible token: a digital file that cannot be copied, thus allowing certified ownership of

ON MAY 23, A CONTROL TOWER RADIOED a Ryanair jetliner that it had a bomb on board. A fighter jet appeared off its wing, and Flight FR4978, en route from Greece to Lithuania, was compelled to make a sharp turn and land in Belarus. But there was no bom

AFTER A RARE PANDEMIC-related dip in 2020, global carbon emissions bounced back with a vengeance. Climate disasters seemed relentless over the summer, from flooding in Western Europe and China to wildfires in Siberia and the American West. And althou

THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD DOES NOT OWN a house and has recently been selling off his fortune. He tosses satellites into orbit and harnesses the sun; he drives a car he created that uses no gas and barely needs a driver. With a flick of his finger,

NO ONE KNOWS FOR SURE WHERE THE VIRUS came from. It could have been the murky depths of one of the hundreds of bat caves scattered across China. Carried inside a bat on a nightly sojourn, the virus may have jumped to another wild animal, perhaps one

AROUND 9 P.M. ON JULY 27, AS SIMONE BILES soared high above the vault at the Tokyo Olympics, she lost herself. You could see the confusion in her eyes, which darted sideways instead of locking onto the ground as she made her way back to earth. She wo

THE AIR IS MUSTY, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER IS playing on an ancient TV by the door, and Olivia Rodrigo is flipping through racks of slip dresses and flared pants. “What’s your style?” she asks. I tell her, unhelpfully, that I’m looking for something

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A finalist for the National Book Award, Hanif Abdurraqib’s work of cultural criticism is an astonishing accounting of Black performance. In lyrical essays, Abdurraqib analyzes everything from the rise of Whitney Houston to a schoolyard fistfight. The

The beginning of Maggie Shipstead’s astounding novel, a Booker finalist, includes a series of endings: two plane crashes, a sunken ship and several people dead. The bad luck continues when one of the ship’s young survivors, Marian, grows up to become

In 1920s Montana, a misanthropic rancher (Benedict Cumberbatch) meets a reedy, dreamy teenager (Kodi Smit-McPhee) who arouses his contempt—and more. Jane Campion’s gorgeous, sinewy western, based on Thomas Savage’s 1967 novel, is a movie as big as th

Listening to Promises by Pharoah Sanders and Floating Points is like driving through an ever changing coastal landscape, as sheer cliffs, flowing rivers and rolling fields of purples and reds emerge out of the haze. Organized around one recurring eth

In adapting Colson Whitehead’s novel about a young enslaved woman’s (Thuso Mbedu) slightly fantastical journey north, Barry Jenkins improved upon a masterpiece, expanding minimal prose into an immersive audiovisual and moral landscape. While his insi

The best work yet from prolific podcaster Dan Taberski (Missing Richard Simmons) focuses not on Sept. 11 itself but how that day changed America. He unspools the tale of how the CIA recruited Hollywood creators to dream up the attacks that U.S. enemi

ELON MUSK MIGHT BE THE MOST INTERESTing person on the planet. And given his passionate quest (so far surprisingly on track) to make humans into a multiplanetary species, he could someday become the most interesting person in the solar system. O.K., t