After a Rushed Exit, the U.S. Vows to Fight Terrorist Threats in Afghanistan from Afar

<br /> <br /> <aside class="right-rail__container right-rail__container--ad"> <div class="right-rail__ad__wrapper right-rail__module"> <div class="right-rail__ad" id="right-rail__ad-6094003"></div> </div> <br /> <div class="OUTBRAIN right-rail__outbrain right-rail__module" data-src="https://time.com/6094003/afghanistan-withdrawal-terrorist-threat/" data-widget-id="SB_2" data-ob-template="timemag"></div> </aside> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Soon after the last U.S. plane departed Kabul’s</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Hamid Karzai International Airport in the prep-dawn hours of Aug. 31, marking the end of America’s longest war, a Taliban spokesman posted a video message hailing “the result of 20 years of our historic sacrifices.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We left a historic chapter behind,”</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/IeaOffice/status/1432528408597209095" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400;">said</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Mohammed Naeem, according to a translation by CBS News. “The coming chapter is important.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While U.S. officials broadcast the immediate security threats to efforts to evacuate Americans and Afghan allies in the chaotic final days of the war, they have been tight-lipped about what dangers may lie ahead. President Joe Biden defended his decision to pull U.S. troops from the conflict in a defiant address to the nation on Tuesday, noting that the terrorist threat to the U.S. has</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">“metastasized across the world well beyond Afghanistan.” But the</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">violent and harrowing withdrawal was a gift to terrorist groups looking to regroup there, experts say.</span><br /> [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”]</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The U.S. has left Afghanistan in the hands of the same Taliban militants it overthrew two decades ago, after the group provided safe haven to the al-Qaeda operatives who plotted the 9/11 attacks. Its leaders still maintain</span> <a href="https://time.com/5844865/afghanistan-peace-deal-taliban-al-qaeda/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">close ties to al-Qaeda</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and the nascent government being patched together in Kabul is unlikely to be able to contain the resurgence of competing terrorist groups in the region, including Islamic State in Khorasan Province. The group, known as ISKP or ISIS-K, has claimed responsibility for the Aug. 26 airport bombing that killed 13 U.S. service members and an estimated 170 Afghans.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The vacuum created by the sudden end of the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan is going to be far larger than the Taliban can fill,” says Matthew Levitt, director of counterterrorism and intelligence at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. While there won’t be many American or foreign targets left in the country, for terrorist groups and foreign fighters “it will be an attractive place to flock to as a safe haven, a place to regroup, a place to plot, a place where they can comfortably exist and make plans for the future.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Biden Administration has vowed to keep such threats at bay from “over the horizon,” by monitoring the situation and deploying drones out of U.S. bases in Qatar and other Gulf countries. “We will maintain the fight against terrorism in Afghanistan and other countries,” Biden said on Tuesday. “We just don’t need to fight a ground war to do it. To ISIS-K, we aren’t done with you yet.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But the dismantling of military infrastructure and withdrawal of all U.S. personnel from the country will make that task more difficult, experts and intelligence officials say, with the U.S. military now largely cut off from the human sources on the ground that it has relied on for twenty years. “We’ve had really good eyes and ears on the ground in Afghanistan,” says Colin Clarke, a counterterrorism analyst with security consulting firm Soufan Group. “And we’re still going to have ears…we’re still going to have [signals intelligence] capabilities, but we won’t have eyes.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But U.S. defense and intelligence officials warn that won’t be enough to stop Afghanistan from once again becoming a hub for emboldened, more technologically savvy terrorist groups seeking to recruit, train, and plot attacks at home and abroad. “The Administration is right that our capabilities are far superior to what they were 20 years ago,” Clarke says. “But technology has been a force multiplier for jihadi groups too. It’s not like it’s the U.S. in 2021 versus al-Qaeda in 2001.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The members of al-Qaeda left in Afghanistan, who could number up to 600, according to U.N. Security Council</span> <a href="https://undocs.org/S/2020/717" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400;">estimates</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, are now likely to have an opportunity to regroup and recruit, capitalizing on the perceived victory of jihad against the most powerful military in the world, analysts say. There have already been recent signs that the organization is ramping up its foreign propaganda operations: in June, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula recently released its first English-language copy of its “Inspire” magazine in over four years. “Foreign terrorist organizations continue efforts to inspire U.S.-based individuals susceptible to violent extremist influences,” Department of Homeland Security officials said in a</span> <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/ntas/advisory/national-terrorism-advisory-system-bulletin-august-13-2021" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400;">bulletin released</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">earlier this month.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It’s a ‘rising tide lifts all boats’ situation,” says Clarke. “There’s going to be an influx of jihadi, some are going to go to [Al-Qaeda], and some are going to go to ISIS-K.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This has been further complicated by the Taliban’s release of thousands of prisoners that had been in Afghan government custody, including many senior al-Qaeda operatives and members of ISIS-K, an offshoot of the original Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria. The group, whose leaders were</span> <a href="https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/national-security/article147407244.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400;">targeted</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">by the U.S.-led coalition in the final years of the war, has re-emerged and is already using the Aug. 26 airport attack in their propaganda material to raise its profile and boost recruitment, intelligence analysts say. ISIS-K has denounced the takeover of the country by the Taliban, which does not conform with its more hard-line version of Islamic rule.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But defense officials and experts say it’s unlikely the Taliban, distracted by the task of governing an impoverished country of 38 million people, will be able to rein them in. ISIS-K carried out 77 attacks in Afghanistan during the first four months of this year, according to U.N. counterterrorism officials, a significant increase</span> <a href="https://www.undocs.org/en/S/2021/486" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400;">from 21</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">in the same period in 2020. The U.N. security council warned</span> <a href="https://www.un.org/press/en/2021/sc14609.doc.htm" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400;">in June</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">of the “alarming expansion” of the group in the region and beyond, especially Africa.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“A precipitous withdrawal could lead to a reconstitution of the terrorist threat to the U.S. homeland within eighteen months to three years,” a group of experts on Afghanistan, including retired Gen. Joseph Dunford, who served as the top commander in Afghanistan before he became the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 2015,</span> <a href="https://www.usip.org/sites/default/files/2021-02/afghanistan_study_group_final_report_a_pathway_for_peace_in_afghanistan.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400;">warned in a report</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">in February.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Biden and his top national security advisers have insisted that the U.S. will conduct effective counter-terrorism measures against these groups the same way they do in other countries where the U.S. does not have a permanent military presence. But former defense officials and experts warn that the sprawling post-9/11 U.S. security apparatus, built to rely on the collection of intelligence in Afghanistan, will become significantly less effective without reliable human intelligence on the ground, proximity or even an embassy, which for now will be operating out of Doha, Qatar.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“There is an expiration date to many of the collection platforms that we’ve been relying on over the past 20 years,” says Levitt of the Washington Institute, referring to Afghan sources and operatives the U.S. has used. “The likelihood that many of those will be disappeared over the coming weeks and months is unfortunately a very real threat.”</span></p> <img alt="" height="1" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/time/politics/~4/jvFJINp6yR4" width="1" />

After a Rushed Exit, the U.S. Vows to Fight Terrorist Threats in Afghanistan from Afar

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The War in Afghanistan Is Over. But Congressional Oversight Is Just Beginning

<br /> <br /> <aside class="right-rail__container right-rail__container--ad"> <div class="right-rail__ad__wrapper right-rail__module"> <div class="right-rail__ad" id="right-rail__ad-6093896"></div> </div> <br /> <div class="OUTBRAIN right-rail__outbrain right-rail__module" data-src="https://time.com/6093896/joe-biden-afghanistan-congressional-oversight/" data-widget-id="SB_2" data-ob-template="timemag"></div> </aside> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://time.com/6090623/afghanistan-us-military-lessons/">America’s longest war</a> may have ended, but the accountability battles for President Joe Biden’s Administration are just beginning.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Questions about the Biden Administration’s <a href="https://time.com/6093906/us-military-afghanistan-withdrawal/">chaotic exit from Afghanistan</a>—which resulted in a gruesome <a href="https://time.com/6093260/kabul-bombing-afghanistan-withdrawal/">terror attack</a></span> that left 13 U.S. service members dead—are setting up the first big congressional oversight probe of the current White House.</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Biden Administration had been fielding questions from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle about the Afghanistan withdrawal since the August 31 deadline was set back in April. But the requests for documents and testimony ratcheted up after the Taliban took control of Kabul on August 14, and intensified further after the deadly suicide bombing at the Hamid Karzai airport on August 26.</span><br /> [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”]</p> <p>The push for accountability is coming from both political parties, but differences in approach between Democrats and Republicans are already setting the stage for a pitched partisan battle. For Democrats, the fight will reveal whether their loyalties lie with party or with truth, after they spent four years criticizing Republicans for not conducting rigorous oversight of President Donald Trump. For Republicans, this moment marks an opportunity to attack the Biden Administration after a series of decisions led to a speedy Taliban takeover that put both U.S. citizens and Afghans in danger. The congressional fight will be waged on both substance and process: Democrats control both chambers of Congress, so Republicans don’t have the power to issue subpoenas or call for testimony on their own.</p> <p>In recent years, congressional oversight typically has involved “the President’s party basically protecting its quarterback and under-investigating its president, and over-investigating the other party,” says Tom Davis, a former Republican lawmaker who chaired the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform during the George W. Bush Administration. “T<span style="font-weight: 400;">his will be a real test.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So far, Democrats have indicated they will investigate the Biden Administration. “We clearly want to do oversight,” says one Democratic source familiar with the House Foreign Relations Committee’s oversight strategy. “That alone is a radical departure from what we saw in the previous Administration.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rep. Gregory Meeks, a Democrat from New York who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee, asked on August 17 for Secretary of Defense Loyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken to testify about the Administration’s plans to evacuate Americans and Afghans who assisted them, and the counterterrorism plan going forward.</span> Sen. Robert Menendez, a Democrat from New Jersey who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in an August 17 statement that he was “disappointed that the Biden Administration clearly did not accurately assess the implications of a rapid U.S. withdrawal” and vowed to hold a hearing on U.S. policy in Afghanistan.</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Democratic aides say that while they want to hear from Biden Administration officials, the oversight must also expand to include the United States’</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">actions during the 20-year war.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">One topic of interest will likely be the <a href="https://time.com/5794643/trumps-disgraceful-peace-deal-taliban/">peace agreement</a> Trump signed with the Taliban last year to leave Afghanistan by May</span> 2021. <span style="font-weight: 400;">Menendez said that his oversight hearing on Afghanistan will focus on</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">the Trump Administration’s negotiations with Taliban along with the Biden Administration’s execution of the U.S. withdrawal.</span> “It’s impossible to examine the collapse of a 20 year war in Afghanistan through the lens of the last 15 days,” says one senior Democratic aide on the Committee on Oversight and Reform.</p> <p>Like the Democrats, Republicans are seeking answers about the withdrawal, the speedy collapse of the Afghan government and the future of the counterterrorism mission. But they want the oversight efforts to focus on the withdrawal itself, rather than probing actions over the past 20 years, according to two congressional aides. “We had been hearing on the ground repeatedly concerns that [the collapse of the Afghan government] was indeed going to happen,” says one senior Senate aide. “The fact that the State Department was completely unprepared for all of this highlights the fact that they either weren’t reading the intelligence, or they didn’t want to believe it.”</p> <p>Republicans already are alleging that Democrats are being too relaxed about oversight of the Biden Administration. The 12 Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, for instance, sent a letter to Menendez on August 17 asking to call Blinken to testify before the committee, but say they have not heard back. <span style="font-weight: 400;">“[Democrats] have said they are supportive of a hearing, but they have not secured a commitment from the administration for the hearing,” says the senior Senate aide.</span> Menendez’s office did not respond to requests for comment.</p> <p>Discrepancies have also emerged between the two parties over the processing of Special Immigrant Visas for the Afghans who assisted the United States during the war, which promises to be the next front in the oversight fight. Democrats have encouraged the Administration to increase the refugee cap to accommodate these Afghans, or take further action to accelerate resettlement. Some Republicans, on the other hand, are urging intensified vetting to ensure terrorists don’t try and slip into the country. On August 25th, Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, the ranking Republican on the Committee on Oversight and Reform, sent a letter to Blinken requesting a staff-level hearing on the Administration’s vetting efforts. “In the chaotic situation left in the wake of the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, we are particularly concerned that terrorists and others who wish to harm the United States may seek to infiltrate the country disguised as those who provided assistance to coalition forces in Afghanistan,” Comer wrote. According to a congressional aide, the State Department has not responded to Comer’s letter, but he did secure a commitment from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) John F. Sopko to testify before the committee. SIGAR did not immediately respond to a request for comment.</p> <p>Amid all of these requests for answers, the partisan fighting will only intensify. Several <span style="font-weight: 400;">congressional</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Republicans have already called for Biden’s impeachment, and others are calling for Blinken’s resignation. But some Republicans worry these calls will distract from the real oversight mission</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">. “Certainly it’s polarizing,” says the senior Senate aide, “at a time when we’re just trying to get simple answers.”</span></p> <img alt="" height="1" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/time/politics/~4/fnjdK9UYkBk" width="1" />

The War in Afghanistan Is Over. But Congressional Oversight Is Just Beginning

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The Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal Exposes a Dangerous Fault Line in Our Democracy

<br /> <br /> <aside class="right-rail__container right-rail__container--ad"> <div class="right-rail__ad__wrapper right-rail__module"> <div class="right-rail__ad" id="right-rail__ad-6093906"></div> </div> <br /> <div class="OUTBRAIN right-rail__outbrain right-rail__module" data-src="https://time.com/6093906/us-military-afghanistan-withdrawal/" data-widget-id="SB_2" data-ob-template="timemag"></div> </aside> <p>“The baby boomers’ turn is over,” said Marine Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Scheller in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KubqQ0VFwoY" target="_blank">video</a> this past Friday. “I demand accountability, at all levels. If we don’t get it, I’m bringing it.” His post, which quickly went viral, was in response to the previous day’s <a href="https://time.com/6093260/kabul-bombing-afghanistan-withdrawal/">suicide bombing at Kabul International Airport</a>, which killed 13 U.S. service members and over 150 Afghans. In his nearly five-minute-long post, Scheller laments the Biden Administration’s handling of our withdrawal from Afghanistan and <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/28/politics/stuart-scheller-marine-relieved-afghanistan/index.html" target="_blank">calls out</a> senior military leaders, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley, Commandant of the Marine Corps General David Berger, and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. “People are upset because their senior leaders let them down, and none of them are raising their hands and accepting accountability or saying, ‘We messed this up.’” But Scheller’s remarks go one step further than a simple demand for accountability. He goes onto quote Thomas Jefferson who said, “every generation needs a revolution.”<br /> [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”]</p> <p>When I finished watching the video, I wasn’t sure what to make of it. My first instinct was to categorize it as a rant. The Biden Administration has handled the evacuation of Afghanistan with an unprecedented degree of incompetence, so a rant—even if inappropriate when delivered by an active-duty officer—seemed understandable. However, after more thought, I concluded that what I had seen was something else: an act of self-immolation.</p> <p>Before his <a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/news/marine-lt-col-stuart-scheller-relieved-video/" target="_blank">swift relief by senior officers</a> on Friday, Scheller held battalion command. The Marine Corps is very selective about which officers it grooms to become battalion commanders; the fact that Scheller held that job means he was—before this past week—well-regarded, a Marine with a future in the Corps. Furthermore, Scheller is seventeen years into a twenty-year career. At <em>twenty</em> years, he would have been eligible for retirement at half his base pay with other benefits, like healthcare for life. It took him exactly four minutes and forty-five seconds to throw that all away. Scheller is a husband and a father. Why did he do this?</p> <p>Until the past two weeks, Afghanistan was not a place, or an issue, most American cared about. In 2018, <a href="https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/afghanistan/do_voters_know_we_re_still_at_war_with_afghanistan" target="_blank">42 percent</a> of the country couldn’t even say whether or not we were still at war there. Over the past two decades, the war in Afghanistan has been waged by an all-volunteer military and funded through deficit spending. Unlike other wars, there has been no draft and no war tax. It’s often been said that while <a href="https://time.com/6090623/afghanistan-us-military-lessons/">America’s military</a> has spent the past twenty years at war, America itself has been at the mall. This has led to a massive civilian-military divide.</p> <p>This botched withdrawal, in which many active duty as well as retired members of our military are receiving hundreds of phone calls and texts daily from their Afghan allies and their families who are now left to fend for themselves against the Taliban, has only deepened this sense of alienation among many who’ve served. One only need to look back through history—from Caesar’s Rome to Napoleon’s France—to see clearly that when a republic couples a large standing military with dysfunctional domestic politics, democracy doesn’t last long.</p> <figure class="inline-longform_xlarge alignnone"><img alt="President Donald Trump, trailed by a group including along with Gen. Mark Milley, walks to St. John's Church after security forces cleared Lafayette Square near the White House on June 1, 2020." loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px" src="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/donald-trump-mark-milley-lafayette-park.jpg?w=1200&w=1200" srcset="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/donald-trump-mark-milley-lafayette-park.jpg 2400w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/donald-trump-mark-milley-lafayette-park.jpg?resize=300,182 300w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/donald-trump-mark-milley-lafayette-park.jpg?resize=768,467 768w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/donald-trump-mark-milley-lafayette-park.jpg?resize=600,365 600w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/donald-trump-mark-milley-lafayette-park.jpg?resize=1536,933 1536w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/donald-trump-mark-milley-lafayette-park.jpg?resize=2048,1244 2048w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/donald-trump-mark-milley-lafayette-park.jpg?resize=550,334 550w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/donald-trump-mark-milley-lafayette-park.jpg?resize=1100,668 1100w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/donald-trump-mark-milley-lafayette-park.jpg?resize=280,170 280w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/donald-trump-mark-milley-lafayette-park.jpg?resize=560,340 560w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/donald-trump-mark-milley-lafayette-park.jpg?resize=419,255 419w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/donald-trump-mark-milley-lafayette-park.jpg?resize=838,509 838w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/donald-trump-mark-milley-lafayette-park.jpg?resize=1778,1080 1778w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/donald-trump-mark-milley-lafayette-park.jpg?resize=407,247 407w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/donald-trump-mark-milley-lafayette-park.jpg?resize=814,495 814w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/donald-trump-mark-milley-lafayette-park.jpg?resize=1646,1000 1646w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/donald-trump-mark-milley-lafayette-park.jpg?resize=190,115 190w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/donald-trump-mark-milley-lafayette-park.jpg?resize=380,231 380w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/donald-trump-mark-milley-lafayette-park.jpg?resize=263,160 263w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/donald-trump-mark-milley-lafayette-park.jpg?resize=526,320 526w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/donald-trump-mark-milley-lafayette-park.jpg?resize=61,37 61w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/donald-trump-mark-milley-lafayette-park.jpg?resize=1200,729 1200w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/donald-trump-mark-milley-lafayette-park.jpg?resize=640,389 640w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/donald-trump-mark-milley-lafayette-park.jpg?resize=760,462 760w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/donald-trump-mark-milley-lafayette-park.jpg?resize=1520,923 1520w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/donald-trump-mark-milley-lafayette-park.jpg?resize=700,425 700w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/donald-trump-mark-milley-lafayette-park.jpg?resize=1000,608 1000w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/donald-trump-mark-milley-lafayette-park.jpg?resize=51,31 51w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/donald-trump-mark-milley-lafayette-park.jpg?resize=840,510 840w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/donald-trump-mark-milley-lafayette-park.jpg?resize=1680,1021 1680w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/donald-trump-mark-milley-lafayette-park.jpg?resize=1012,615 1012w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/donald-trump-mark-milley-lafayette-park.jpg?resize=2024,1230 2024w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/donald-trump-mark-milley-lafayette-park.jpg?resize=320,194 320w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/donald-trump-mark-milley-lafayette-park.jpg?resize=730,443 730w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/donald-trump-mark-milley-lafayette-park.jpg?resize=192,117 192w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/donald-trump-mark-milley-lafayette-park.jpg?resize=412,250 412w" /> <figcaption class="image-caption"><span class="credit">Doug Mills—The New York Times/Redux</span><span class="caption">President Donald Trump, trailed by a group that includes Gen. Mark Milley, walks to St. John’s Church after security forces cleared Lafayette Square near the White House on June 1, 2020.</span></figcaption> </figure> <p>In the past eighteen months we have witnessed a politicization of the U.S. military with few precedents, from <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/11/us/politics/trump-milley-military-protests-lafayette-square.html" target="_blank">General Mark Milley</a> marching across Lafayette Park in his fatigues with former President Donald Trump, to the Congressional testimony of senior officers—on everything from January 6th to right-wing extremism to <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/06/23/1009592838/top-general-defends-studying-critical-race-theory-in-the-military" target="_blank">critical race theory</a>—becoming fodder for late-night cable news anchors who seek to position those in uniform on one side or another of the Democratic-Republican divide. Our military is, historically and ostensibly, an apolitical organization, but this has never meant military members do not have political views. Of course they do. But the military stays out of politics because it practices a code of omerta. Scheller’s video breaks that code.</p> <p>The Marine Corps is a small community. As a lieutenant, Scheller served in 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment (or “one eight” as we call it) a year after I did. I received his video from a friend, a lieutenant colonel who also served in 1/8. And one of the two infantry battalions guarding the North Gate at Kabul International Airport was 1/8, too; their current commander was a classmate of mine at Quantico. The all-volunteer military, the men and women who fought the post 9/11 wars, has become increasingly insulated from the broader American culture. The model of the citizen soldier that characterized the American military for generations has been replaced by a <a href="https://time.com/5696950/bring-back-the-draft/">professional soldiering class</a>, one that is increasingly closed, insular and subject to living in its own atomized reality—just like the rest of America does. This is dangerous.</p> <p>It is particularly dangerous when military members feel misunderstood or even betrayed by the society they serve. Does everyone feel like Scheller? No, of course not. But after twenty years of war culminating in the botched evacuation of Kabul, I have heard his sense of betrayal echoed by many others.</p> <p>So how we think about Scheller’s video matters. It’s important to understand that it was not so much a rant but an act of total self-immolation. And acts of self-immolation, if not heeded, have historically preceded catastrophic breakdowns in society. Remember <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mohamed-Bouazizi" target="_blank">Mohamed Bouazizi</a>, the Tunisian fruit vendor? Or <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thich-Quang-Duc" target="_blank">Thích Quảng Đức</a>, the Vietnamese monk? One resulted in a rallying cry for the Arab Spring, and the other remains the iconic martyr of the Vietnam War. Read about them. You will notice that each burned for approximately four minutes and forty-five seconds.</p> <img alt="" height="1" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/time/world/~4/a2-ivopgM-8" width="1" />

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Impeachment: American Crime Story Frames the Clinton Scandal as a Case of Women Sabotaging Women. Is That Really So Revolutionary?

<br /> <br /> <aside class="right-rail__container right-rail__container--ad"> <div class="right-rail__ad__wrapper right-rail__module"> <div class="right-rail__ad" id="right-rail__ad-6093019"></div> </div> <br /> <div class="OUTBRAIN right-rail__outbrain right-rail__module" data-src="https://time.com/6093019/impeachment-american-crime-story-review/" data-widget-id="SB_2" data-ob-template="timemag"></div> </aside> <p>The latest installment of <a href="https://time.com/5667752/ryan-murphy-netflix/">Ryan Murphy</a>’s FX anthology <em>American Crime Story</em> is not exactly well timed. <em>Impeachment</em>, which revisits the investigation that threatened to end Bill Clinton’s presidency, was originally intended for release before the 2020 election. Instead, it premieres on Sept. 7—months after the twice-impeached Donald Trump left office, taking the immediacy of the title with him. The season is based on a <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/179426/a-vast-conspiracy-by-jeffrey-toobin/" target="_blank">nonfiction book</a> whose author recently faced his own extremely public <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/15/style/jeffrey-toobin-zoom.html" target="_blank">sex scandal</a>. And it follows years’ worth of high-profile reconsiderations of the Clinton impeachment, from <a href="https://time.com/5130921/monica-lewinsky-now/">Monica Lewinsky</a>’s reclamation of her good name in a 2014 <em><a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/style/society/2014/06/monica-lewinsky-humiliation-culture" target="_blank">Vanity Fair</a></em> <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/style/society/2014/06/monica-lewinsky-humiliation-culture" target="_blank">essay</a> to A&E docuseries <em>The Clinton Affair</em> and a buzzy season of the podcast <em><a href="https://time.com/5455070/best-podcasts-2018-2/">Slow Burn</a></em>, both tied to the 20th anniversary of the story in 2018. There may always be an appetite for content around this salacious tale of sex, politics and media, but what is there to say about it that hasn’t been said before?<br /> [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”]</p> <p>That is the question with which <em>Impeachment</em> struggles as it reassembles all the familiar elements: the blue dress, the Drudge Report, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.” Head writer and executive producer Sarah Burgess, an award-winning playwright who is relatively new to TV, finds her answer in the women this scandal thrust into the spotlight—not just Monica, Hillary and Linda Tripp, but also Paula Jones, <a href="http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20050425,00.html">Ann Coulter</a> and more obscure players including Jones adviser Susan Carpenter-McMillan and Tripp’s literary agent, <a href="http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,989915,00.html">Lucianne Goldberg</a>. A handful of interesting performances and effective episodes in the second half of the season aside, the effect is to reduce the <a href="http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19981228,00.html">President and his inquisitor, Ken Starr,</a> to minor roles. If there’s a point to this exercise, it gets lost amid so many histrionic reenactments of scenes we’ve seen replayed on the news and parodied in late-night comedy for more than two decades.</p> <p>Of course, for Murphy-verse diehards, stunt-cast actors hamming it up in broad roles are part of the appeal. And in that regard, <em>Impeachment</em> gleefully delivers. Our heroine, in a choice that might have seemed subversive before Lewinsky’s reemergence but now just feels obvious, is the lovelorn, early-20s Monica, given sympathetic voice by the preternaturally effervescent <a href="https://time.com/collection/time-100-next-2019/5718777/beanie-feldstein/">Beanie Feldstein</a>. Murphy regular <a href="https://time.com/collection/2017-time-100/4736222/sarah-paulson/">Sarah Paulson</a> takes on the guise of Monica’s treacherous coworker and confidant, Linda. While she isn’t exactly bad in the role, this is not a transformation on the level of her gloriously angry Marcia Clark in <em>The People v. O.J. Simpson</em>. Tripp remains the same delusional, cartoonish character she has always been.</p> <p>Paulson isn’t the only cast member rendered fully unrecognizable by makeup, prosthetics and/or wigs. Clive Owen’s transformation into Bill Clinton must have taken hours, although it still doesn’t leave him looking much like the former POTUS. (Perhaps because she barely appears until the seventh episode, the production doesn’t appear to have expended much energy on sculpting the egregiously miscast <a href="https://time.com/4931046/edie-falco-law-order-true-crime-menendez-murders/">Edie Falco</a> into a believable facsimile of Hillary.) Owen does, at least, break from the standard, overly broad “Bubba” impression. His Bill isn’t a fratty hedonist so much as a man too psychologically compartmentalized to face his own misdeeds. There’s a regretful mutedness to the performance, too, as though we were watching the Clinton of 2021 retrace steps he took as a younger, more energetic and libidinous man.</p> <figure class="inline-portrait_small_2x alignnone"><img alt="Impeachment: American Crime Story -- Pictured: Sarah Paulson as Linda Tripp. CR. Kurt Iswarienko/FX" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px" src="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/01_Hallway_Gallery_LindaTripp_0013_v2.jpg?w=560&w=560" srcset="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/01_Hallway_Gallery_LindaTripp_0013_v2.jpg 2074w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/01_Hallway_Gallery_LindaTripp_0013_v2.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/01_Hallway_Gallery_LindaTripp_0013_v2.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/01_Hallway_Gallery_LindaTripp_0013_v2.jpg?resize=600,400 600w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/01_Hallway_Gallery_LindaTripp_0013_v2.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/01_Hallway_Gallery_LindaTripp_0013_v2.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/01_Hallway_Gallery_LindaTripp_0013_v2.jpg?resize=550,366 550w, 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345w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/01_Hallway_Gallery_LindaTripp_0013_v2.jpg?resize=270,180 270w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/01_Hallway_Gallery_LindaTripp_0013_v2.jpg?resize=192,128 192w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/01_Hallway_Gallery_LindaTripp_0013_v2.jpg?resize=375,250 375w" /> <figcaption class="image-caption"><span class="credit">Kurt Iswarienko/FX</span><span class="caption">Sarah Paulson as Linda Tripp in ‘Impeachment: American Crime Story’</span></figcaption> </figure> <p>Although the cast of characters is enormous, encompassing everyone from Clinton’s advisers to members of Starr’s team to the swarm of beltway reporters and pundits buzzing around the developing story, it’s the relationship between Monica and Linda that gives the season its shape. After opening with a thriller-esque flash-forward to the stranger-than-fiction sting operation in which Linda and a band of FBI agents ambush Monica at the Pentagon City Mall food court, the show traces the women’s time together at the Department of Defense. A pair of White House exiles, one nursing a secret love affair and the other a secret grudge, they bond over their impatience to leave the Pentagon’s boring, gray cubicles for another stint in the West Wing. When Linda realizes that Monica’s encounters with the President could give her the leverage to become the genuine Washington player she’s so desperate to become, the friendship becomes a seduction.</p> <p>As Bill pulls away from Monica and Linda’s deceptions escalate to the point of taping the girlfriends’ marathon phone calls—and also, confusingly, as the show skips around among dates in the mid-to-late ‘90s—peripheral stories begin to unfold. There’s palace intrigue in the Oval, with aides scrambling to protect a President who seems only dimly aware of what he’s done, and cognitive dissonance at Starr HQ, where investigators’ conservative sympathies wrestle with a need to maintain the appearance of nonpartisanship. We watch Paula (a camped-up, makeup-caked Annaleigh Ashford) get unwittingly dragged into her husband’s (Taran Killam) and self-proclaimed “conservative feminist” Susan’s (the great <a href="https://time.com/4307017/judith-light-lgbt-courage/">Judith Light</a>, splitting the difference between Phyllis Schlafly and Laura Dern in <em><a href="https://time.com/5664305/marriage-story-review-noah-baumbach/">Marriage Story</a></em>) vendetta against the Clintons.</p> <p>The strongest side plot, by far, follows the media circus surrounding the Starr investigation. In one corner there’s <em>Newsweek</em> reporter Michael Isikoff (Danny A. Jacobs) doing his shoe-leather thing—vetting sources, refusing access to illegally recorded audio and still having to beg his skittish editors to just publish the Monica story already. In the other, more sinister but also more colorful corner are Coulter (Cobie Smulders), Matt Drudge (<a href="https://time.com/6076062/time-pride-summit-2021/">Billy Eichner</a>) and their circle of oddball right-wing upstarts, who want to engineer the President’s downfall and get rich and famous snarking about it, too.</p> <p>If any aspect of the Clinton impeachment merits closer examination in 2021, it is surely the role it played in creating a flamboyantly partisan far-right media sphere, with echoes reverberating from Fox News to Breitbart to OANN. (Curiously, Showtime’s 2019 Roger Ailes docudrama <em><a href="https://time.com/5615609/the-loudest-voice-showtime-review-roger-ailes-show/">The Loudest Voice</a></em> skipped over this fertile period.) A vignette that finds the self-mythologizing Drudge managing the CBS studio’s gift shop by day—yes, he’s that guy spouting hot takes on Edward R. Murrow to apathetic customers—and diving into its dumpster at night in search of scoops brings some much-needed fun to a season that spends too long on inert recreations of Linda and Monica’s phone calls. It helps that Eichner and Smulders are so good. Her performance merits particular notice, considering that she <a href="https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/cobie-smulders-ann-coulter-impeachment-american-crime-story-1235035552/" target="_blank">stepped in on short notice</a> to replace Betty Gilpin; she nails the character’s icy glare, her deadpan baritone, her surprisingly jockish body language.</p> <p>Burgess paints Coulter as a sort of arrogant, nihilistic Peter Pan to a gaggle of awkward, conservative Lost Boys. (“Nice hat,” she quips upon meeting Drudge. “Is it serious?”) Though I wish we saw more of this cohort, that framing works. Elsewhere, we see other women quietly cranking the levers of power. The relationship between Paula and Susan mirrors that of Monica and Linda; in both cases, a commanding older woman pretends to nurture a lonely, naive, wronged young woman while actually using her pain to selfish ends. At the same time, Linda’s doing dirty work for Lucianne (Margo Martindale in tough-broad mode, always a treat), the agent she’s desperate to impress. Women wield influence in the White House as well. Bill’s personal secretary <a href="http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1870544_1870543_1869929,00.html">Betty Currie</a> (Rae Dawn Chong) gradually shifts from compassionate Monica enabler to stern gatekeeper. When the prospect of settling Paula’s lawsuit comes up, Bill nixes the idea for fear of crossing Hillary.</p> <figure class="inline-portrait_small_2x alignnone"><img alt="Impeachment: American Crime Story -- Pictured: Clive Owen as Bill Clinton. CR. Kurt Iswarienko/FX" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px" src="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/03_OvalOffice_Gallery_Bill_0435_v3.jpg?w=560&w=560" srcset="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/03_OvalOffice_Gallery_Bill_0435_v3.jpg 2074w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/03_OvalOffice_Gallery_Bill_0435_v3.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/03_OvalOffice_Gallery_Bill_0435_v3.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/03_OvalOffice_Gallery_Bill_0435_v3.jpg?resize=600,400 600w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/03_OvalOffice_Gallery_Bill_0435_v3.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/03_OvalOffice_Gallery_Bill_0435_v3.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/03_OvalOffice_Gallery_Bill_0435_v3.jpg?resize=550,366 550w, 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https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/03_OvalOffice_Gallery_Bill_0435_v3.jpg?resize=192,128 192w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/03_OvalOffice_Gallery_Bill_0435_v3.jpg?resize=375,250 375w" /> <figcaption class="image-caption"><span class="credit">Kurt Iswarienko/FX</span><span class="caption">Clive Owen as Bill Clinton in ‘Impeachment: American Crime Story’</span></figcaption> </figure> <p>All history written after the official record is set must be revisionist, redundant or some combination of the two, and revisionist history loves to restore agency to oppressed groups whose contributions went unheralded in the original accounting. It’s usually a noble project. But in this case, it’s hard to see what is gained by putting some of the most powerful men in the world on the sidelines. It lets Clinton, Starr and the patriarchy at large off the hook.</p> <p>The depictions of the women, for their part, rarely challenge the tabloid caricatures of 1998. When Susan calls Paula “dumb as a rock,” there’s nothing in the script to contradict that impression. <em>Impeachment</em> seems to delight in mocking Linda, whose passion for microwave cuisine comes off as almost sexual. The real women behind these characters may well deserve such scrutiny. But it’s a weird political stance for an anthology that, in past seasons, connected the <a href="https://time.com/5098416/assassination-gianni-versace-i-tonya/">murder of Gianni Versace</a> to a culture of homophobia and teased out all the ways in which race, class, gender and the cult of celebrity intersected with the <a href="https://time.com/4193893/review-the-people-v-o-j-simpson-american-crime/">O.J. Simpson trial</a>. And by reproducing old stereotypes, a story presumably meant to be revisionist slips into redundancy.</p> <p>The only character <em>Impeachment</em> really seems interested in humanizing is Monica, which isn’t so surprising given that Lewinsky, now 48 and an anti-bullying advocate, is one of its executive producers. Casting the bubbly, adorable Feldstein opposite the prosthetically monstrosified Paulson and Owen is like casting a guileless little bunny as the final girl in a creature feature. On screen as in reality, Lewinsky is a relatable protagonist—a moony, insecure post-adolescent whose devastatingly charismatic, terminally unavailable paramour just so happens to be the leader of the free world. What the show doesn’t seem to get is how successful Monica Lewinsky has already been, over the past seven years, in shifting the narrative around Monica Lewinsky from slut-shaming to sympathy.</p> <p>More unfortunate still is the way this emphasis repeats the mistakes of the ’90s media, by portraying the impeachment circus as a melodrama fit for the <em>National Enquirer</em> rather than as, for instance, a vast right-wing conspiracy to torpedo a Democratic presidency—one that laid the groundwork for our country’s current partisan nightmare. No one could blame Lewinsky for viewing her own ordeal as the most salient topic for <em>Impeachment</em> to tackle. The rest of the <em>American Crime Story</em> team should have known better.</p> <img alt="" height="1" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/time/entertainment/~4/5Kxaox2FkwI" width="1" />

Impeachment: American Crime Story Frames the Clinton Scandal as a Case of Women Sabotaging Women. Is That Really So Revolutionary?

The latest installment of Ryan Murphy ’s FX anthology American Crime Story is not exactly well timed. Impeachment , which revisits...

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The 5 Best New TV Shows Our Critic Watched in August 2021

<br /> <br /> <aside class="right-rail__container right-rail__container--ad"> <div class="right-rail__ad__wrapper right-rail__module"> <div class="right-rail__ad" id="right-rail__ad-6093486"></div> </div> <br /> <div class="OUTBRAIN right-rail__outbrain right-rail__module" data-src="https://time.com/6093486/best-tv-shows-august-2021/" data-widget-id="SB_2" data-ob-template="timemag"></div> </aside> <p>Whether you know it as vacation season, hurricane season or wildfire season, August is a time when our natural surroundings can take on outsize importance in our daily lives. The same is true of this month’s best new TV shows, each of which conjures a vivid sense of place, from the brick edifices and manicured lawns of East Coast academia to the flat expanses of an Oklahoma reservation to desolate, gray beaches in France’s Nantes region. There are also two very different takes on a city that contains multitudes: New York. For more suggestions, here’s some of my favorite TV from <a href="https://time.com/6085661/best-tv-shows-july-2021/">July</a>, <a href="https://time.com/6076905/best-tv-shows-june-2021/">June</a> and the <a href="https://time.com/6049981/best-tv-shows-2021-so-far/">first half of 2021</a>.<br /> [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”]</p> <h2><em style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;">The Chair</em> <span style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;">(Netflix)</span></h2> <div class="article-video"> <div class="time-embed time-embed__youtube video-wrapper" data-provider="youtube" data-url="https://youtu.be/eOqtBtWGl1Q"><iframe loading="lazy" title="The Chair | Official Trailer | Netflix" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eOqtBtWGl1Q?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></div> </div> <p> </p> <p><span class="dropcap">N</span>etflix’s perceptive black comedy <em>The Chair</em> opens at what should be the proudest moment of Professor Ji-Yoon Kim’s career. She has just been named the first-ever female Chair of the English Department at venerable (and fictional) Pembroke University, where she’s also one of very few nonwhite faculty members. At a <a href="https://time.com/4920389/bowdoin-college-liberal-arts-education/">dire moment for the humanities</a>, when a <a href="https://time.com/4507720/stem-skills-equalizer/">STEM major</a> looks to many students like the only viable path to repaying their college loans, her colleagues have entrusted her to revitalize the increasingly underfunded, under-enrolled department.</p> <p>Unfortunately for Ji-Yoon, played by the great <a href="https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2019/5567697/sandra-oh/">Sandra Oh</a> with her signature mix of intelligence, determination and nervous energy, that vote of confidence turns out to be a curse. <strong>[<a href="https://time.com/6090110/the-chair-review-netflix/">Read TIME’s full review</a>.]</strong></p> <h2><em>Laëtitia</em> (HBO)</h2> <div class="article-video"> <div class="time-embed time-embed__youtube video-wrapper" data-provider="youtube" data-url="https://youtu.be/LK0rnpz0B5k"><iframe loading="lazy" title="Laetitia: Official Trailer | HBO" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LK0rnpz0B5k?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></div> </div> <p> </p> <p>French filmmaker Jean-Xavier de Lestrade set the standard for the prestige true-crime documentary with <a href="https://time.com/5304761/the-staircase-netflix-true-crime/"><em>The Staircase</em></a>, a vérité-style series that debuted in 2004 and ultimately followed the legal ordeal of Michael Peterson, an American author charged with killing his wife, over the course of almost two decades. In <em>Laëtitia</em>, the director turns his camera on a crime that shook his home country in 2011: the murder of 18-year-old Laëtitia Parrais, who lived with her twin sister Jessica in foster care. As the details of this infuriating real-life tragedy reveal themselves, De Lestrade’s decision to dramatize rather than document the story starts to look not just inspired, but also sensitive to all that these young women endured.</p> <p>The six-episode drama opens with a chilling discovery. Up early one morning, Jessica (Marie Colomb, in a superb, emotional performance) finds her sister’s scooter and shoe dumped in front of their foster parents’ home. Laëtitia (<em>Raw</em> star Sophie Breyer) is nowhere to be found. It would be the perfect setup for a whodunit, but De Lestrade and co-writer Antoine Lacomblez aren’t interested in squeezing suspense out of real people’s pain; the French public already knows how Parrais’ story ends anyway. Instead, by interweaving flashbacks to Laëtitia’s trajectory on the day she disappeared and the girls’ harrowing childhood—from a father jailed for raping their mother to their placement with the strict Patron family as preteens—into its account of the police investigation, the series captures how two vulnerable young women were failed over and over again by institutions that were supposedly designed to protect them. Particularly given the shared foster-care component, <em>Laëtitia</em> makes for compelling companion viewing to Netflix’s 2019 true-crime drama <em>Unbelievable</em>. But this is, in many senses, an even darker tale, one that suggests we’ll keep hearing stories like Parrais’ for as long as patriarchy persists.</p> <h2><em>NYC Epicenters 9/11➔2021½</em> (HBO)</h2> <div class="article-video"> <div class="time-embed time-embed__youtube video-wrapper" data-provider="youtube" data-url="https://youtu.be/gQ866ljcevY"><iframe loading="lazy" title="NYC Epicenters: 9/11 → 2021 ½ (2021) | Official Trailer | HBO" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gQ866ljcevY?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></div> </div> <p> </p> <p><a href="https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2019/5567680/spike-lee/">Spike Lee</a>‘s latest docuseries, an eight-hour dive into New York in the 21st century, has been in the news for the past few weeks following an announcement that the director was re-editing a final episode that <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/08/spike-lees-911-doc-promoted-conspiracy-theories" target="_blank">reportedly</a> gave credence to debunked 9/11 conspiracy theories. Yikes. Lee has since deleted the controversial section, and a significantly shorter version of the episode will air on Sept. 11. Especially for those who can’t stomach the patriotic pomp of most remembrances, it’s a moving tribute to those whose stories went untold, from families who lost loved ones to sanitation and construction who did the hard, humble work of excavating remains from Ground Zero while cops and firefighters were celebrated as superheroes.</p> <p>If you can forgive Lee’s abiding contrarian streak, there’s a lot to love about the rest of his rambling ode to his city as well. New Yorkers of all stripes—politicians, celebs, activists, essential workers, first responders—sit for playful yet substantive interviews, creating a collage of Gotham-centric humanity. Lee’s combination of righteous inquisitiveness, gallows humor, authentic love for the city and eye for novel ways into events that have been dissected to death make him the perfect interlocutor for this particular story. While the second episode is loose to the point of unraveling, the filmmaker is at his best in a premiere focused on COVID-19 and BLM, and the third episode, which chronicles the rise and fall of the Twin Towers.</p> <h2><em>Only Murders in the Building</em> (Hulu)</h2> <div class="article-video"> <div class="time-embed time-embed__youtube video-wrapper" data-provider="youtube" data-url="https://youtu.be/-V1rQdXXXyI"><iframe loading="lazy" title="Only Murders in the Building | Official Trailer" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-V1rQdXXXyI?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></div> </div> <p> </p> <p>A mild, witty, middlebrow comedy that doesn’t try too hard to be virtuous or controversial or timely, <em>Only Murders in the Building</em> arrives in time to soothe our Delta-era, back-to-school-and-work anxieties. Created by Steve Martin and John Hoffman (<em><a href="https://time.com/3846067/review-grace-and-frankie-netflix/">Grace and Frankie</a></em>), it casts Martin, his <a href="https://time.com/5530616/steve-martin-martin-short-jimmy-fallon/">frequent collaborator</a> Martin Short and a sparkling <a href="https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2020/5888461/selena-gomez/">Selena Gomez</a> as strangers living in a Dakota-like Upper West Side luxury building who become amateur sleuths when one of their neighbors is found dead in his apartment. It won’t expand your mind or change your life, but it might temporarily lower your blood pressure a few points. <strong>[<a href="https://time.com/6093369/only-murders-in-building-review-hulu/">Read the full review</a>.]</strong></p> <h2><em>Reservation Dogs</em> (FX)</h2> <div class="article-video"> <div class="time-embed time-embed__youtube video-wrapper" data-provider="youtube" data-url="https://youtu.be/RoHewFAkrWU"><iframe loading="lazy" title="Reservation Dogs | Official Trailer - Season 1 | FX" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RoHewFAkrWU?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></div> </div> <p> </p> <p>Depictions of Indigenous communities in American pop culture have, historically, often added insult to grievous injury. So it’s encouraging to see two TV series—Peacock’s <a href="https://time.com/5956934/rutherford-falls-review-peacock/"><em>Rutherford Falls</em></a> and now <em>Reservation Dogs</em>, from FX on Hulu—co-created by, starring and centered on Indigenous Americans premiere within months of each other. Even better: <em>Dogs</em> is one of the year’s best new comedies. Helmed by filmmakers Sterlin Harjo and <a href="https://time.com/5005130/thor-ragnarok-taika-waititi/">Taika Waititi</a>, it follows a coed crew of teens on an Oklahoma reservation. Still mourning a friend who died a year earlier, the ad-hoc gang is saving to finance a move to California through various extralegal schemes whose immediate effect is to bring them into unwitting conflict with other local posses. Fans of <a href="https://time.com/4465184/donald-glover-atlanta-childish-gambino/"><em>Atlanta</em></a>, <a href="https://time.com/5887132/best-teen-dramas-of-all-time/"><em>On My Block</em></a> or any series that mix absurd humor with gritty realism are sure to adore this smart, funny and groundbreaking show.</p> <img alt="" height="1" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/time/entertainment/~4/lSLb3sTzs_c" width="1" />

The 5 Best New TV Shows Our Critic Watched in August 2021

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Last U.S. Troops Leave Afghanistan After 20 Years of War

<br /> <br /> <aside class="right-rail__container right-rail__container--ad"> <div class="right-rail__ad__wrapper right-rail__module"> <div class="right-rail__ad" id="right-rail__ad-6093814"></div> </div> <br /> <div class="OUTBRAIN right-rail__outbrain right-rail__module" data-src="https://time.com/6093814/afghanistan-last-us-troops/" data-widget-id="SB_2" data-ob-template="timemag"></div> </aside> <p>(WASHINGTON) — The United States completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan late Monday, ending America’s longest war and closing a chapter in military history likely to be remembered for colossal failures, unfulfilled promises and a frantic final exit that cost the lives of more than 180 Afghans and 13 U.S. service members, some barely older than the war.</p> <p>Hours ahead of President Joe Biden’s Tuesday deadline for shutting down a final airlift, and thus ending the U.S. war, Air Force transport planes carried a remaining contingent of troops from Kabul airport. Thousands of troops had spent a harrowing two weeks protecting the airlift of tens of thousands of Afghans, Americans and others seeking to escape a country once again ruled by Taliban militants.<br /> [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”]</p> <p>In announcing the completion of the evacuation and war effort. Gen. Frank McKenzie, head of U.S. Central Command, said the last planes took off from Kabul airport at 3:29 p.m. Washington time, or one minute before midnight in Kabul. He said a number of American citizens, likely numbering in “the very low hundreds,” were left behind, and that he believes they will still be able to leave the country.</p> <p>Secretary of State Antony Blinken put the number of Americans left behind at under 200, “likely closer to 100,” and said the State Department would keep working to get them out. He praised the military-led evacuation as heroic and historic and said the U.S. diplomatic presence <a href="https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-afghanistan-qatar-6c1e9e4ef1a9f0c3d19eac20b9321339" target="_blank">would shift to Doha, Qatar.</a></p> <p>Biden said military commanders unanimously favored ending the airlift, not extending it. He said he asked Blinken to coordinate with international partners in holding the Taliban to their promise of safe passage for <a href="https://apnews.com/article/europe-united-nations-taliban-islamic-state-group-b90c6fed789e7209c9056ba156142637" target="_blank">Americans and others who want to leave in the days ahead</a>.</p> <p>The airport had become a U.S.-controlled island, a last stand in a 20-year war that claimed more than 2,400 American lives.</p> <p>The closing hours of the evacuation <a href="https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-kabul-airport-rocket-attack-b657e37e182c445eb985a585bbde8b5e" target="_blank">were marked by extraordinary drama.</a> American troops faced the daunting task of getting final evacuees onto planes while also getting themselves and some of their equipment out, even as they monitored repeated threats — and at least two actual attacks — by the Islamic State group’s Afghanistan affiliate. A suicide bombing on Aug. 26 killed 13 American service members <a href="https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-kabul-taliban-01012941cf44cceba8e5084b719cf2ed" target="_blank">and some 169 Afghans</a>.</p> <p>The final pullout fulfilled Biden’s pledge to end what he called a “forever war” that began in response to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, Washington and rural Pennsylvania. His decision, announced in April, reflected a national weariness of the Afghanistan conflict. Now he faces criticism at home and abroad, not so much for ending the war as for his handling of a final evacuation that unfolded in chaos and raised doubts about U.S. credibility.</p> <p>The U.S. war effort at times seemed to grind on with no endgame in mind, little hope for victory and minimal care by Congress for the way tens of billions of dollars were spent for two decades. The human cost piled up — tens of thousands of Americans injured in addition to the dead.</p> <p>More than 1,100 troops from coalition countries and more than 100,000 Afghan forces and civilians died, according to Brown University’s Costs of War project.</p> <p>In Biden’s view the war could have ended 10 years ago with the U.S. killing of Osama bin Laden, whose al-Qaida extremist network planned and executed the 9/11 plot from an Afghanistan sanctuary. Al-Qaida has been vastly diminished, preventing it thus far from again attacking the United States.</p> <p>Congressional committees, whose interest in the war waned over the years, are expected to hold public hearings on what went wrong in the final months of the U.S. withdrawal. Why, for example, did the administration not begin earlier the evacuation of American citizens as well as Afghans who had helped the U.S. war effort and felt vulnerable to retribution by the Taliban?</p> <p>It was not supposed to end this way. The administration’s plan, after declaring its intention to withdraw all combat troops, was to keep the U.S. Embassy in Kabul open, protected by a force of about 650 U.S. troops, including a contingent that would secure the airport along with partner countries. Washington planned to give the now-defunct Afghan government billions more to prop up its army.</p> <p>Biden now faces doubts about his plan to prevent al-Qaida from regenerating in Afghanistan and of suppressing threats posed by other extremist groups such as the Islamic State group’s Afghanistan affiliate. The Taliban are enemies of the Islamic State group but retain links to a diminished al-Qaida.</p> <p>The final U.S. exit included the withdrawal of its diplomats, although the State Department has left open the possibility of resuming some level of diplomacy with the Taliban depending on how they conduct themselves in establishing a government and adhering to international pleas for the protection of human rights.</p> <p>The speed with which the Taliban captured Kabul on Aug. 15 caught the Biden administration by surprise. It forced the U.S. to empty its embassy and frantically accelerate an evacuation effort that featured an extraordinary airlift executed mainly by the U.S. Air Force, with American ground forces protecting the airfield. The airlift began in such chaos that a number of Afghans died on the airfield, including at least one who attempted to cling to the airframe of a C-17 transport plane as it sped down the runway.</p> <p>By the evacuation’s conclusion, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-business-4256794dcd38fe80f7c973fbb80daf13" target="_blank">well over 100,000 people, mostly Afghans, had been flown to safety</a>. The dangers of carrying out such a mission came into tragic focus last week when the suicide bomber struck outside an airport gate.</p> <p>Speaking shortly after that attack, Biden stuck to his view that ending the war was the right move. He said it was past time for the United States to focus on threats emanating from elsewhere in the world.</p> <p>“Ladies and gentlemen,” he said, “it was time to end a 20-year war.”</p> <p>The war’s start was an echo of a promise President George W. Bush made while standing atop of the rubble in New York City three days after hijacked airliners slammed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center.</p> <p>“The people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon!” he declared through a bullhorn.</p> <p>Less than a month later, on Oct. 7, Bush launched the war. The Taliban’s forces were overwhelmed and Kabul fell in a matter of weeks. A U.S.-installed government led by Hamid Karzai took over and bin Laden and his al-Qaida cohort escaped across the border into Pakistan.</p> <p>The initial plan was to extinguish bin Laden’s al-Qaida, which had used Afghanistan as a staging base for its attack on the United States. The grander ambition was to fight a “Global War on Terrorism” based on the belief that military force could somehow defeat Islamic extremism. Afghanistan was but the first round of that fight. Bush chose to make Iraq the next, invading in 2003 and getting mired in an even deadlier conflict that made Afghanistan a secondary priority until Barack Obama assumed the White House in 2009 and later that year decided to escalate in Afghanistan.</p> <p>Obama pushed U.S. troop levels to 100,000, but the war dragged on though bin Laden was killed in Pakistan in 2011.</p> <p>When Donald Trump entered the White House in 2017 he wanted to withdraw from Afghanistan but was persuaded not only to stay but to add several thousand U.S. troops and escalate attacks on the Taliban. Two years later his administration was looking for a deal with the Taliban, and in February 2020 the two sides signed an agreement that called for a complete U.S. withdrawal by May 2021. In exchange, the Taliban made a number of promises including a pledge not to attack U.S. troops.</p> <p>Biden weighed advice from members of his national security team who argued for retaining the 2,500 troops who were in Afghanistan by the time he took office in January. But in mid-April he announced his decision to fully withdraw.</p> <p>The Taliban pushed an offensive that by early August toppled key cities, including provincial capitals. The Afghan army largely collapsed, sometimes surrendering rather than taking a final stand, and shortly after President Ashraf Ghani fled the capital, the Taliban rolled into Kabul and assumed control on Aug. 15.</p> <p>Some parts of the country modernized during the U.S. war years, and life for many Afghans, especially women and girls, improved measurably. But <a href="https://apnews.com/article/business-kabul-taliban-6195d704cc60970011615c2e7cfa9195" target="_blank">Afghanistan remains a tragedy, poor, unstable</a> and with many of its people fearing a return to the brutality the country endured when the Taliban ruled from 1996 to 2001.</p> <p>The U.S. failures were numerous. It degraded but never defeated the Taliban and ultimately failed to build an Afghan military that could hold off the insurgents, despite $83 billion in U.S. spending to train and equip the army.</p> <img alt="" height="1" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/time/world/~4/bVOJfo9nG_o" width="1" />

Last U.S. Troops Leave Afghanistan After 20 Years of War

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The 34 Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2021

<br /> <br /> <aside class="right-rail__container right-rail__container--ad"> <div class="right-rail__ad__wrapper right-rail__module"> <div class="right-rail__ad" id="right-rail__ad-6092265"></div> </div> <br /> <div class="OUTBRAIN right-rail__outbrain right-rail__module" data-src="https://time.com/6092265/fall-books-2021/" data-widget-id="SB_2" data-ob-template="timemag"></div> </aside> <p class="p1">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 hotly anticipated debuts. There’s a crime novel set in 1960s Harlem from two-time Pulitzer Prize winner <a href="https://time.com/magazine/us/5615604/july-8th-2019-vol-194-no-2-u-s/">Colson Whitehead</a>, a posthumous novel from British master John le Carré, the very first book from acclaimed television creator Michaela Coel and the latest narrative of young people stumbling their way through romantic strife from superstar <a href="https://time.com/collection/time-100-next-2019/5718853/sally-rooney/">Sally Rooney</a>. That’s all to say: there’s truly something for everyone in this jam-packed season. Here, the 34 most anticipated books to read this fall.</p> <p>[time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”]</p> <h2 class="p2"><strong><i>Misfits: A Personal Manifesto</i>, Michaela Coel (Sept. 7)</strong></h2> <figure class="image-wrapper no-caption"><img align="none" alt="" class="alignnone size-portrait_small_2x wp-image-6093052" sizes="(max-width: 4375px) 100vw, 4375px" src="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/misfits-fall-preview-2021.jpg?w=560" srcset="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/misfits-fall-preview-2021.jpg 4375w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/misfits-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/misfits-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/misfits-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=600,400 600w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/misfits-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, 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https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/misfits-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1680,1120 1680w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/misfits-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=407,271 407w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/misfits-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=814,542 814w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/misfits-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1500,1000 1500w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/misfits-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=190,127 190w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/misfits-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=380,253 380w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/misfits-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=263,175 263w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/misfits-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=526,351 526w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/misfits-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=61,41 61w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/misfits-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=616,411 616w, 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https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/misfits-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1000,667 1000w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/misfits-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=46,31 46w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/misfits-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1012,675 1012w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/misfits-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=2024,1349 2024w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/misfits-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/misfits-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=730,487 730w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/misfits-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=345,230 345w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/misfits-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=270,180 270w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/misfits-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=192,128 192w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/misfits-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=375,250 375w" width="560" /></figure> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2020/5888492/michaela-coel/">Michaela Coel,</a> creator and star of</span> <a href="https://time.com/5844881/i-may-destroy-you-hbo-review/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">I May Destroy You</span></i></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and</span> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Chewing Gum</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, makes her literary debut with a slim manifesto written with the same perfect balance of sentiment, insight and wit that made viewers fall in love with her on the screen. Built on a speech Coel delivered at the 2018 Edinburgh International Television Festival,</span> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Misfits</span></i> <span style="font-weight: 400;">describes her experience of racism, prejudice and trauma, and her empowering transformation from a person trying to fit in to a person determined to make new space for herself. It’s an impassioned and rousing defense of staying true to yourself and supporting others to do the same.</span></p> <p><strong>Buy Now:</strong> <em>Misfits</em> on <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/4973/9781250843449" target="_blank">Bookshop</a> | <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250843448/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=time-books-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1250843448&linkId=9fb6a231a9fdf5ea63efad391e8703e9" target="_blank">Amazon</a></p> <h2 class="p2"><strong><i>Inseparable</i>, Simone de Beauvoir (Sept. 7)</strong></h2> <figure class="image-wrapper no-caption"><img align="none" alt="" class="alignnone size-portrait_small_2x wp-image-6093076" sizes="(max-width: 4375px) 100vw, 4375px" src="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/inseperable-fall-preview-2021.jpg?w=560" srcset="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/inseperable-fall-preview-2021.jpg 4375w, 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https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/inseperable-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=925,617 925w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/inseperable-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1850,1234 1850w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/inseperable-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1200,800 1200w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/inseperable-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/inseperable-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=760,507 760w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/inseperable-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1520,1013 1520w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/inseperable-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=700,467 700w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/inseperable-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1000,667 1000w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/inseperable-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=46,31 46w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/inseperable-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1012,675 1012w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/inseperable-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=2024,1349 2024w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/inseperable-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/inseperable-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=730,487 730w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/inseperable-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=345,230 345w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/inseperable-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=270,180 270w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/inseperable-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=192,128 192w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/inseperable-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=375,250 375w" width="560" /></figure> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Thirty-five years after Simone de Beauvoir’s death, her never-before-published novel</span> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Inseparable</span></i> <span style="font-weight: 400;">is finally being released to the world. The iconic French philosopher (and author of the landmark feminist text</span> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Second Sex</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">) describes a profound and passionate friendship between Sylvie and Andrée, two tenacious young women who meet as children and strengthen their bond as they grow into adulthood in post–World War I France. It’s a vibrant exploration of female will and friendship in a world that is still, too often, intent on constraining both.</span></p> <p><strong>Buy Now:</strong> <em>Inseparable</em> on <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/4973/9780063075047" target="_blank">Bookshop</a> | <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0063075040/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=time-books-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0063075040&linkId=3d3d52f23a70e31ff3782f95b30d499b" target="_blank">Amazon</a></p> <h2 class="p2"><strong><i>Matrix</i>, Lauren Groff (Sept. 7)</strong></h2> <figure class="image-wrapper no-caption"><img align="none" alt="" class="alignnone wp-image-6093054 size-portrait_small_2x" height="373" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px" src="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/matrix-fall-preview-2021.jpg?w=560" srcset="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/matrix-fall-preview-2021.jpg 4375w, 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https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/matrix-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=263,175 263w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/matrix-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=526,351 526w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/matrix-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=61,41 61w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/matrix-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=616,411 616w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/matrix-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1232,821 1232w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/matrix-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=321,214 321w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/matrix-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=642,428 642w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/matrix-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=925,617 925w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/matrix-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1850,1234 1850w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/matrix-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1200,800 1200w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/matrix-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/matrix-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=760,507 760w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/matrix-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1520,1013 1520w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/matrix-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=700,467 700w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/matrix-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1000,667 1000w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/matrix-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=46,31 46w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/matrix-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1012,675 1012w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/matrix-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=2024,1349 2024w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/matrix-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/matrix-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=730,487 730w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/matrix-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=345,230 345w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/matrix-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=270,180 270w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/matrix-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=192,128 192w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/matrix-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=375,250 375w" width="560" /></figure> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At the center of Lauren Groff’s new novel, her first since her 2015 hit</span> <a href="https://time.com/4047848/in-this-marriage-love-may-be-times-fool/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fates and Furies</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, is teenager Marie de France. It’s the 12th century and Marie’s just been sent to an abbey in England after being ousted from the French royal court. The fierce protagonist of</span> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Matrix</span></i> <span style="font-weight: 400;">is entering a bleak scene: disease is everywhere at the abbey, and the nuns barely have enough to eat. Marie is tasked with making life better for these women—a challenge that proves both thrilling and heartbreaking. Groff, a two-time National Book Award finalist, crafts an electric work of historical fiction charting Marie’s plight.</span></p> <p><strong>Buy Now:</strong> <em>Matrix</em> on <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/4973/9781594634499" target="_blank">Bookshop</a> | <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594634491/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=time-books-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1594634491&linkId=11b7605ccce45ea8300525c4b3249448" target="_blank">Amazon</a></p> <h2 class="p2"><strong><i>Poet Warrior</i>, Joy Harjo (Sept. 7)</strong></h2> <figure class="image-wrapper no-caption"><img align="none" alt="" class="alignnone size-portrait_small_2x wp-image-6093069" sizes="(max-width: 4375px) 100vw, 4375px" src="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/poet-warrior-fall-preview-2021.jpg?w=560" srcset="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/poet-warrior-fall-preview-2021.jpg 4375w, 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https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/poet-warrior-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=925,617 925w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/poet-warrior-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1850,1234 1850w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/poet-warrior-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1200,800 1200w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/poet-warrior-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/poet-warrior-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=760,507 760w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/poet-warrior-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1520,1013 1520w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/poet-warrior-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=700,467 700w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/poet-warrior-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1000,667 1000w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/poet-warrior-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=46,31 46w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/poet-warrior-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1012,675 1012w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/poet-warrior-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=2024,1349 2024w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/poet-warrior-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/poet-warrior-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=730,487 730w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/poet-warrior-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=345,230 345w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/poet-warrior-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=270,180 270w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/poet-warrior-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=192,128 192w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/poet-warrior-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=375,250 375w" width="560" /></figure> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Three-time</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo—the first Native American to hold the title—delivers a follow-up to her 2012 memoir</span> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Crazy Brave</span></i> <span style="font-weight: 400;">with</span> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Poet Warrior</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a lyrical study of her relationship to poetry and music. Alternating between poetry and prose, Harjo meditates on the stories and songs she grew up with, her artistic and ancestral influences and how poetry informs and reflects her connection to her community and home</span><b>.</b> <span style="font-weight: 400;">The result is a memoir that is soulful and celebratory.</span></p> <p><strong>Buy Now:</strong> <em>Poet Warrior</em> on <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/4973/9780393248524" target="_blank">Bookshop</a> | <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393248526/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=time-books-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0393248526&linkId=ca55cfb6c90a5a59fbda19b9576514bc" target="_blank">Amazon</a></p> <h2 class="p2"><strong><i>On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint</i>, Maggie Nelson (Sept. 7)</strong></h2> <figure class="image-wrapper no-caption"><img align="none" alt="" class="alignnone wp-image-6093075 size-portrait_small_2x" height="373" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px" src="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/on-freedom-fall-preview-2021.jpg?w=560" srcset="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/on-freedom-fall-preview-2021.jpg 4375w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/on-freedom-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/on-freedom-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/on-freedom-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=600,400 600w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/on-freedom-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/on-freedom-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/on-freedom-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=550,367 550w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/on-freedom-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1100,733 1100w, 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https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/on-freedom-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1000,667 1000w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/on-freedom-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=46,31 46w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/on-freedom-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1012,675 1012w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/on-freedom-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=2024,1349 2024w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/on-freedom-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/on-freedom-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=730,487 730w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/on-freedom-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=345,230 345w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/on-freedom-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=270,180 270w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/on-freedom-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=192,128 192w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/on-freedom-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=375,250 375w" width="560" /></figure> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The latest book from poet and writer Maggie Nelson is a meditative and potent examination of freedom. Looking at freedom through the realms of art, sex, drugs and climate, the author of</span> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Argonauts</span></i> <span style="font-weight: 400;">explores the contradictions, complexities and rhetoric that surround the term. Combining thoughtful cultural criticism with anecdotes from her personal life, Nelson delivers an intriguing work of nonfiction that seeks to challenge readers’ definition of freedom and rethink how the concept operates in our lives.</span></p> <p><strong>Buy Now:</strong> <em>On Freedom</em> on <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/4973/9781644450628" target="_blank">Bookshop</a> | <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B094GTS6GF/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=time-books-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B094GTS6GF&linkId=9a2d546858cc1895f144d105e26acc22" target="_blank">Amazon</a></p> <h2 class="p2"><strong><i>Beautiful World, Where Are You,</i> Sally Rooney (Sept. 7)</strong></h2> <figure class="image-wrapper no-caption"><img align="none" alt="" class="alignnone wp-image-6093065 size-portrait_small_2x" height="373" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px" 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https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/beautiful-world-where-are-you-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/beautiful-world-where-are-you-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=760,507 760w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/beautiful-world-where-are-you-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1520,1013 1520w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/beautiful-world-where-are-you-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=700,467 700w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/beautiful-world-where-are-you-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1000,667 1000w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/beautiful-world-where-are-you-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=46,31 46w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/beautiful-world-where-are-you-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1012,675 1012w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/beautiful-world-where-are-you-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=2024,1349 2024w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/beautiful-world-where-are-you-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/beautiful-world-where-are-you-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=730,487 730w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/beautiful-world-where-are-you-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=345,230 345w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/beautiful-world-where-are-you-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=270,180 270w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/beautiful-world-where-are-you-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=192,128 192w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/beautiful-world-where-are-you-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=375,250 375w" width="560" /></figure> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://time.com/collection/time-100-next-2019/5718853/sally-rooney/">Sally Rooney</a> exploded onto the literary scene in 2017</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">with her debut novel</span> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Conversations with Friends</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Next came her</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">similarly beloved follow-up</span> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Normal People,</span></i> <span style="font-weight: 400;">now an <a href="https://time.com/5827920/normal-people-hulu-review/">acclaimed Hulu series</a>. Rooney’s latest, one of the most anticipated books of the year, is again concerned with Irish millennials navigating the turbulence of falling in and out of love and questioning the seemingly broken world that surrounds them. Tracing the lives of best friends Alice and Eileen, and the emails they write to stay connected to each other, Rooney unravels a sharp narrative about intimacy, religion and romance.</span></p> <p><strong>Buy Now:</strong> <em>Beautiful World, Where Are You</em> on <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/4973/9780374602604" target="_blank">Bookshop</a> | <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374602603/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=time-books-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0374602603&linkId=197dd31731b89034b7d3b4bc5fc42c67" target="_blank">Amazon</a></p> <h2><strong><i>The Magician</i>, Colm Tóibín (Sept. 7)</strong></h2> <figure class="image-wrapper no-caption"><img align="none" alt="" class="alignnone size-portrait_small_2x wp-image-6093074" sizes="(max-width: 4375px) 100vw, 4375px" src="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/the-magician-fall-preview-2021.jpg?w=560" srcset="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/the-magician-fall-preview-2021.jpg 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https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/the-magician-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1012,675 1012w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/the-magician-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=2024,1349 2024w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/the-magician-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/the-magician-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=730,487 730w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/the-magician-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=345,230 345w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/the-magician-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=270,180 270w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/the-magician-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=192,128 192w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/the-magician-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=375,250 375w" width="560" /></figure> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Colm</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Tóibín</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the award-winning author of</span> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Brooklyn</span></i> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and</span> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Master</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, returns with another sweeping historical novel, this time a fictionalized account of the life of Thomas Mann, the Nobel prize-winning author of</span> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Death in Venice</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Extensively researched and lyrically wrought,</span> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Magician</span></i> <span style="font-weight: 400;">follows Mann from his childhood in early 20th-century Germany—as a young boy grappling with desires he can’t reveal to his conservative family—through his marriage, the trip that inspires his groundbreaking novel, his discomfort with his new role as a public intellectual during World War II and his escape to the U.S. It’s a complex but empathetic portrayal of a writer in a lifelong battle against his innermost desires, his family and the tumultuous times they endure.</span></p> <p><strong>Buy Now:</strong> <em>The Magician</em> on <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/4973/9781476785080" target="_blank">Bookshop</a> | <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1476785082/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=time-books-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1476785082&linkId=b5bcd47d34b6b773f2a616bd72eb2b9b" target="_blank">Amazon</a></p> <h2 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width="560" /></figure> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In her debut memoir,</span> <a href="https://time.com/collection/most-influential-people-2018/5217577/tarana-burke/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tarana Burke</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">mines her past, from her coming-of-age as a Black girl in the Bronx to</span> <a href="https://time.com/5574163/tarana-burke-metoo-time-100-summit/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">her rise in activism as the founder of the MeToo movement</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. In candid terms, Burke lays bare her relationship with trauma, exploring how her sexual assault impacted her sense of self, and how</span> <a href="https://time.com/time-person-of-the-year-2017-silence-breakers/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">she went on to use that experience to empower others</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and create meaningful change. Bold and inspiring,</span> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Unbound</span></i> <span style="font-weight: 400;">is a searing look at leadership, activism and empathy.</span></p> <p><strong>Buy Now:</strong> <em>Unbound</em> on <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/4973/9781250621733" target="_blank">Bookshop</a> | <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250621739/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=time-books-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1250621739&linkId=dce80101d2001c9ec871b8accbf6418b" target="_blank">Amazon</a></p> <h2 class="p2"><strong><i>Harlem Shuffle</i>, Colson Whitehead (Sept. 14)</strong></h2> <figure class="image-wrapper no-caption"><img align="none" alt="" class="alignnone wp-image-6093080 size-portrait_small_2x" height="373" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px" src="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/harlem-shuffle-fall-preview-2021.jpg?w=560" 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https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/harlem-shuffle-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=46,31 46w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/harlem-shuffle-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1012,675 1012w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/harlem-shuffle-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=2024,1349 2024w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/harlem-shuffle-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/harlem-shuffle-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=730,487 730w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/harlem-shuffle-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=345,230 345w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/harlem-shuffle-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=270,180 270w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/harlem-shuffle-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=192,128 192w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/harlem-shuffle-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=375,250 375w" width="560" /></figure> <p><a href="https://time.com/5615610/colson-whitehead-the-nickel-boys-interview/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">is known for narratives that vary greatly in subject matter.</span> <a href="https://time.com/5614905/colson-whitehead-books/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">His body of work</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">contains multitudes, from his debut about the aftermath</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">of an elevator crash</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">to a zombie apocalypse story</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">to piercing retellings of violent periods in U.S. history.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Whitehead’s latest showcases yet more of his range as a storyteller, as</span> <a href="https://time.com/5935152/harlem-shuffle-colson-whitehead-cover/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Harlem Shuffle</span></i></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">follows a 1960s furniture salesman leading a double life of crime. What ensues is part heist novel and part family drama, all set against the backdrop of Harlem, which the author captures in rich, visceral prose.</span></p> <p><strong>Buy Now:</strong> <em>Harlem Shuffle</em> on <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/4973/9780385545136" target="_blank">Bookshop</a> | <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385545134/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=time-books-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0385545134&linkId=bd8fb50d13ffb2863486433719e0822f" target="_blank">Amazon</a></p> <h2 class="p2"><strong><i>The Book of Form and Emptiness</i>, Ruth Ozeki (Sept. 21)</strong></h2> <figure class="image-wrapper no-caption"><img align="none" alt="" class="alignnone size-portrait_small_2x wp-image-6093066" sizes="(max-width: 4375px) 100vw, 4375px" src="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/the-book-of-form-and-emptiness-fall-preview-2021.jpg?w=560" 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https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/the-book-of-form-and-emptiness-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=760,507 760w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/the-book-of-form-and-emptiness-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1520,1013 1520w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/the-book-of-form-and-emptiness-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=700,467 700w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/the-book-of-form-and-emptiness-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1000,667 1000w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/the-book-of-form-and-emptiness-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=46,31 46w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/the-book-of-form-and-emptiness-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1012,675 1012w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/the-book-of-form-and-emptiness-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=2024,1349 2024w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/the-book-of-form-and-emptiness-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/the-book-of-form-and-emptiness-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=730,487 730w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/the-book-of-form-and-emptiness-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=345,230 345w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/the-book-of-form-and-emptiness-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=270,180 270w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/the-book-of-form-and-emptiness-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=192,128 192w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/the-book-of-form-and-emptiness-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=375,250 375w" width="560" /></figure> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ruth Ozeki, the award-winning author of</span> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">A Tale for the Time Being,</span></i> <span style="font-weight: 400;">weaves a heartfelt, magical tale in her latest, which centers on 13-year-old Benny and his mother Annabelle as they figure out how to live after the unexpected death of their father and husband. Deep in grief, Benny discovers he can suddenly hear the voices of the objects around him—and there are</span> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">a lot</span></i> <span style="font-weight: 400;">of objects surrounding him, due to his mother’s hoarding. He develops a symbiotic relationship with the Book, the omniscient voice relating the story we’re reading. Ozeki, a practicing Buddhist priest, infuses her story with Zen philosophy, using themes of mindfulness and our connection to the living world to highlight pressing modern concerns like climate change, capitalism and the function of art. Inventive, vivid and propelled by a sense of wonder,</span> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Book of Form and Emptiness</span></i> <span style="font-weight: 400;">will delight younger and older readers alike.</span></p> <p><strong>Buy Now:</strong> <em>The Book of Form and Emptiness</em> on <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/4973/9780399563645" target="_blank">Bookshop</a> | <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08VW51L98/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=time-books-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B08VW51L98&linkId=b7b7e8adcd1a026c5fe3acdb997c7ab3" target="_blank">Amazon</a></p> <h2 class="p2"><strong><i>Cloud Cuckoo Land</i>, Anthony Doerr (Sept. 28)</strong></h2> <figure class="image-wrapper no-caption"><img align="none" alt="" class="alignnone size-portrait_small_2x wp-image-6093067" sizes="(max-width: 4375px) 100vw, 4375px" src="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/cloud-cuckoo-land-fall-preview-2021.jpg?w=560" 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/></figure> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sweeping and atmospheric,</span> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cloud Cuckoo Land</span></i> <span style="font-weight: 400;">spans centuries and continents, following five protagonists linked by an ancient Greek manuscript about a shepherd who dreams of escaping into paradise. In 15th-century Constantinople, Anna and Omeir are on opposing sides in a violent siege when Anna first discovers the lost manuscript; in 2020 Idaho, 86-year-old vet Zeno clashes with teenage eco-terrorist Seymour against the backdrop</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">of a suburban production of the Greek story as a play</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">; and in the 22nd century, 14-year-old Constance is aboard a spaceship on its way to colonize a distant planet,</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">secretly preserving the story, told to her by her father, on scraps of paper</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">. These characters—like those in Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel</span> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">All the Light We Cannot See</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">—hold their ideals and convictions close, and through their resilience Doerr explores the</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">universal</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">power of hope in catastrophic times.</span></p> <p><strong>Buy Now:</strong> <em>Cloud Cuckoo Land</em> on <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/4973/9781982168438" target="_blank">Bookshop</a> | <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08TRMSR3Z/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=time-books-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B08TRMSR3Z&linkId=ad4ccc2cd8194e4f230a34fdb29880a0" target="_blank">Amazon</a></p> <h2 class="p2"><strong><i>A Calling for Charlie Barnes</i>, Joshua Ferris (Sept. 28)</strong></h2> <figure class="image-wrapper no-caption"><img align="none" alt="" class="alignnone size-portrait_small_2x wp-image-6093081" 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https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/a-calling-for-charlie-barnes-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/a-calling-for-charlie-barnes-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=730,487 730w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/a-calling-for-charlie-barnes-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=345,230 345w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/a-calling-for-charlie-barnes-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=270,180 270w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/a-calling-for-charlie-barnes-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=192,128 192w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/a-calling-for-charlie-barnes-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=375,250 375w" width="560" /></figure> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s 2008, failed businessman Charlie Barnes has just found out he has pancreatic cancer, and his novelist son Jake has promised to tell his story. But the story we’re reading—full of multiple wives, divorces and children, larger-than-life inventions and doomed business endeavors—seems more mythical than real, and we’re left wondering how reliable this narrator is, and how much the answer really matters. Joshua Ferris makes the mundane extraordinary in this oddball but poignant story about what gives a life meaning.</span></p> <p><strong>Buy Now:</strong> <em>A Calling for Charlie Barnes</em> on <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/4973/9780316333535" target="_blank">Bookshop</a> | <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316333530/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=time-books-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0316333530&linkId=1055772b90f75df3a6d102224ef69136" target="_blank">Amazon</a></p> <h2 class="p2"><strong><i>Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence</i>, Anita Hill (Sept. 28)</strong></h2> <figure class="image-wrapper no-caption"><img align="none" alt="" class="alignnone size-portrait_small_2x wp-image-6093058" sizes="(max-width: 4375px) 100vw, 4375px" src="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/believing-fall-preview-2021.jpg?w=560" srcset="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/believing-fall-preview-2021.jpg 4375w, 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https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/believing-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1012,675 1012w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/believing-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=2024,1349 2024w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/believing-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/believing-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=730,487 730w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/believing-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=345,230 345w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/believing-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=270,180 270w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/believing-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=192,128 192w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/believing-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=375,250 375w" width="560" /></figure> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Blending memoir with social and cultural analysis,</span> <a href="https://time.com/5793719/anita-hill-100-women-of-the-year/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Anita Hill</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">dissects gender-based violence in the U.S. and outlines three decades of history to show how it is a systemic problem. Hill’s personal experience of</span> <a href="https://time.com/5398116/anita-hill-christine-blasey-ford/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">testifying before Congress</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">during the 1991 confirmation hearings for then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas is just one part of her comprehensive account. The legal scholar and advocate highlights how gender-based violence manifests and impacts people on a daily level, culminating in an urgent argument and call to leaders and lawmakers to make change.</span></p> <p><strong>Buy Now:</strong> <em>Believing</em> on <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/4973/9780593298299" target="_blank">Bookshop</a> | <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0593298292/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=time-books-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0593298292&linkId=9b216555a0f5b2ab6275749271008dc8" target="_blank">Amazon</a></p> <h2 class="p2"><strong><i>Please Don’t Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays</i>, Phoebe Robinson (Sept. 28)</strong></h2> <figure class="image-wrapper no-caption"><img align="none" alt="" class="alignnone size-portrait_small_2x wp-image-6093062" sizes="(max-width: 4375px) 100vw, 4375px" src="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/please-dont-sit-on-my-bed-fall-preview-2021.jpg?w=560" 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https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/please-dont-sit-on-my-bed-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=730,487 730w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/please-dont-sit-on-my-bed-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=345,230 345w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/please-dont-sit-on-my-bed-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=270,180 270w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/please-dont-sit-on-my-bed-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=192,128 192w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/please-dont-sit-on-my-bed-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=375,250 375w" width="560" /></figure> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Though this is Phoebe Robinson’s third essay collection, it’s the very first for her new imprint, Tiny Reparations Books. The imprint, which Robinson announced last year, is committed to highlighting diverse voices in order to “reshape publishing by publishing books from a wide range of people.” Like her previous two books,</span> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Please Don’t Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes</span></i> <span style="font-weight: 400;">illuminates the comedian’s thoughts on a variety of topics, from the Black Lives Matter movement to</span> COVID-19 <span style="font-weight: 400;">quarantine to the decision she made not to have children. Throughout, Robinson is brutally honest, and applies her humor in clever ways.</span></p> <p><strong>Buy Now:</strong> <em>Please Don’t Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes</em> on <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/4973/9780593184905" target="_blank">Bookshop</a> | <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0593184904/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=time-books-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0593184904&linkId=3a2ad1bdf75d864f0a6cb83bcab4bc31" target="_blank">Amazon</a></p> <h2 class="p2"><strong><i>Stones: Poems</i>, Kevin Young (Sept. 28)</strong></h2> <figure class="image-wrapper no-caption"><img align="none" alt="" class="alignnone wp-image-6093078 size-portrait_small_2x" height="373" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px" src="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/stones-fall-preview-2021.jpg?w=560" srcset="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/stones-fall-preview-2021.jpg 4375w, 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https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/stones-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=345,230 345w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/stones-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=270,180 270w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/stones-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=192,128 192w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/stones-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=375,250 375w" width="560" /></figure> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With his latest poetry collection,</span> <a href="https://time.com/5945450/kevin-young-museum-african-american-history/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kevin Young</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and poetry editor for the</span> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">New Yorker</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, reminds us of the power of looking back. In</span> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Stones</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Young mines his familial history and calls out moments of sorrow and joy, from musings on his grandmother Mama Annie to poems that consider the generations of people that have lived in the American South.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">The result is a blistering look at love, loss and everything in between.</span></p> <p><strong>Buy Now:</strong> <em>Stones</em> on <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/4973/9781524732561" target="_blank">Bookshop</a> | <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1524732567/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=time-books-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1524732567&linkId=b854945def1218adc32a15a765dd6711" target="_blank">Amazon</a></p> <h2 class="p2"><strong><i>What Storm What Thunder</i>, Myriam J.A. Chancy (Oct. 5)</strong></h2> <figure class="image-wrapper no-caption"><img align="none" alt="" class="alignnone wp-image-6093056 size-portrait_small_2x" height="373" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px" src="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/what-storm-what-thunder-fall-preview-2021.jpg?w=560" srcset="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/what-storm-what-thunder-fall-preview-2021.jpg 4375w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/what-storm-what-thunder-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/what-storm-what-thunder-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/what-storm-what-thunder-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=600,400 600w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/what-storm-what-thunder-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, 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https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/what-storm-what-thunder-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1012,675 1012w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/what-storm-what-thunder-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=2024,1349 2024w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/what-storm-what-thunder-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/what-storm-what-thunder-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=730,487 730w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/what-storm-what-thunder-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=345,230 345w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/what-storm-what-thunder-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=270,180 270w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/what-storm-what-thunder-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=192,128 192w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/what-storm-what-thunder-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=375,250 375w" width="560" /></figure> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Haitian-born author and Guggenheim fellow Myriam J.A. Chancy’s new novel takes on the earthquake that devastated Haiti in 2010. Drawing from years spent talking to survivors, Chancy zooms in on the human toll—the earthquake is estimated to have killed 250,000 people—through evocative and unforgettable portraits of 10 interconnected characters whose lives are caught in the wreckage. There’s a wealthy water executive and his NGO architect daughter; a teen girl stuck and abused in a displacement camp and her brother, a cab driver in Boston, wracked with guilt; a drug trafficker reckoning with his decisions; a sex worker saved by a split second; and more. At the core is Ma Lou, a local produce seller who’s seen enough of the island’s tragedies—and the world’s disregard for them—to carry any false hope. It’s a heartbreaking tale of regret and resilience, and a fiery rebuke of racism, violence and greed.</span></p> <p><strong>Buy Now:</strong> <em>What Storm What Thunder</em> on <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/4973/9781951142766" target="_blank">Bookshop</a> | <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1951142764/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=time-books-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1951142764&linkId=d9e3d9e936ec64644ff30326b2cbe8f3" target="_blank">Amazon</a></p> <h2 class="p2"><strong><i>Crossroads,</i> Jonathan Franzen (Oct. 5)</strong></h2> <figure class="image-wrapper no-caption"><img align="none" alt="" class="alignnone wp-image-6093070 size-portrait_small_2x" height="373" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px" src="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/crossroads-fall-preview-2021.jpg?w=560" srcset="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/crossroads-fall-preview-2021.jpg 4375w, 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https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/crossroads-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1012,675 1012w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/crossroads-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=2024,1349 2024w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/crossroads-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/crossroads-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=730,487 730w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/crossroads-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=345,230 345w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/crossroads-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=270,180 270w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/crossroads-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=192,128 192w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/crossroads-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=375,250 375w" width="560" /></figure> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Critically acclaimed, occasionally controversial author Jonathan Franzen—whose 2001 novel</span> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Corrections</span></i> <span style="font-weight: 400;">won a National Book Award and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist—releases his sixth novel, a nearly 600-page portrait of a Christian family in 1970s suburban Chicago. Patriarch Russ Hildebrandt is an associate pastor navigating a crush on a new parishioner, a running feud with the too-charming youth group leader and a marriage that lost its spark sometime after the kids were born. His wife, Marion, is tending to her own secrets, processing a decades-old trauma. And his three oldest children are dealing with their own awakenings amidst budding romance, drug use, financial freedom and the Vietnam war. Franzen gives each of these five characters distinct interiority, and their story is a compelling examination of faith, privilege and ambition.</span> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Crossroads</span></i> <span style="font-weight: 400;">is the first in a planned trilogy that promises to</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">follow the Hildebrandt family through the present day.</span></p> <p><strong>Buy Now:</strong> <em>Crossroads</em> on <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/4973/9780374181178" target="_blank">Bookshop</a> | <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374181179/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=time-books-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0374181179&linkId=d552c6dad93d7555e6d7b8efd49fe092" target="_blank">Amazon</a></p> <h2 class="p2"><strong><i>My Monticello</i>, Jocelyn Nicole Johnson (Oct. 5)</strong></h2> <figure class="image-wrapper no-caption"><img align="none" alt="" class="alignnone wp-image-6093082 size-portrait_small_2x" height="373" loading="lazy" 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https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/my-monticello-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1000,667 1000w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/my-monticello-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=46,31 46w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/my-monticello-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1012,675 1012w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/my-monticello-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=2024,1349 2024w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/my-monticello-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/my-monticello-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=730,487 730w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/my-monticello-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=345,230 345w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/my-monticello-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=270,180 270w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/my-monticello-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=192,128 192w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/my-monticello-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=375,250 375w" width="560" /></figure> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The titular novella of Jocelyn Nicole Johnson’s daring debut collection</span> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">My Monticello</span></i> <span style="font-weight: 400;">centers on a group of neighbors seeking safety in Charlottesville. While fleeing violent white supremacists, the group takes refuge nearby on Thomas Jefferson’s historic plantation</span><b>.</b> <span style="font-weight: 400;">The narrative is bold, harrowing and unfolds with urgency. Johnson’s collection is full of stories like this one, concerned with issues surrounding racial identity and the legacies of slavery and racism. Together they create an unnerving portrait of a country wrestling with its ugly past and present.</span></p> <p><strong>Buy Now:</strong> <em>My Monticello</em> on <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/4973/9781250807151" target="_blank">Bookshop</a> | <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250807158/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=time-books-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1250807158&linkId=5c1476e93dc27379b84185f2f37c9add" target="_blank">Amazon</a></p> <h2 class="p2"><strong><i>Sankofa</i>, Chibundu Onuzo (Oct. 5)</strong></h2> <figure class="image-wrapper no-caption"><img align="none" alt="" class="alignnone wp-image-6093072 size-portrait_small_2x" height="373" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px" src="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/sankofa-fall-preview-2021.jpg?w=560" srcset="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/sankofa-fall-preview-2021.jpg 4375w, 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https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/sankofa-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/sankofa-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=760,507 760w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/sankofa-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1520,1013 1520w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/sankofa-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=700,467 700w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/sankofa-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1000,667 1000w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/sankofa-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=46,31 46w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/sankofa-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1012,675 1012w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/sankofa-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=2024,1349 2024w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/sankofa-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/sankofa-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=730,487 730w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/sankofa-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=345,230 345w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/sankofa-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=270,180 270w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/sankofa-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=192,128 192w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/sankofa-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=375,250 375w" width="560" /></figure> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nigerian-British writer Chibundu Onuzo’s latest novel (after</span> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Welcome to Lagos</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">) follows Anna Bain, a biracial woman raised by her white mother in London with no connection to her African roots. Now in middle age, Anna finds herself at a moment of profound transformation—she’s separated from her husband, her daughter is fully grown and her mother has just died—and she takes the opportunity to find the father she never knew, armed with his recently discovered diary. Anna’s journey to the fictional African country Bamana, where her father is a polarizing prime minister, sparks an internal reckoning with identity, race, politics and belonging, and forces her to challenge the roles she’s assumed in her life thus far.</span></p> <p><strong>Buy Now:</strong> <em>Sankofa</em> on <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/4973/9781646220830" target="_blank">Bookshop</a> | <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1646220838/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=time-books-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1646220838&linkId=c079b7b68fa6b7bed92f1c6d157941a4" target="_blank">Amazon</a></p> <h2 class="p2"><strong><i>Smile: The Story of a Face</i>, Sarah Ruhl (Oct. 5)</strong></h2> <figure class="image-wrapper no-caption"><img align="none" alt="" class="alignnone wp-image-6093077 size-portrait_small_2x" height="373" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px" src="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/smile-fall-preview-2021.jpg?w=560" 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https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/smile-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1200,800 1200w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/smile-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=640,427 640w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/smile-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=760,507 760w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/smile-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1520,1013 1520w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/smile-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=700,467 700w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/smile-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1000,667 1000w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/smile-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=46,31 46w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/smile-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1012,675 1012w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/smile-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=2024,1349 2024w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/smile-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/smile-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=730,487 730w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/smile-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=345,230 345w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/smile-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=270,180 270w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/smile-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=192,128 192w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/smile-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=375,250 375w" width="560" /></figure> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Shortly after giving birth to her twins, playwright Sarah Ruhl, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, discovered that she could not move the left side of her face. She had developed Bell’s palsy, which meant that half her face was paralyzed, and assumed that she, like most Bell’s palsy patients, would recover fairly quickly. But Ruhl didn’t. Through a series of essays, both wrenching and insightful, Ruhl takes readers through the decade that followed, recounting her challenges and joys as she searched for a cure.</span> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Smile</span></i> <span style="font-weight: 400;">is an intimate dive into the mind of an artist and mother as she attempts to make sense of her body, her relationships and more.</span></p> <p><strong>Buy Now:</strong> <em>Smile</em> on <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/4973/9781982150945" target="_blank">Bookshop</a> | <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1982150947/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=time-books-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1982150947&linkId=2be530a61d8be9c636fc1c30d8e26fd7" target="_blank">Amazon</a></p> <h2 class="p2"><strong>Such Color: New and Selected Poems, Tracy K. Smith (Oct. 5)</strong></h2> <figure class="image-wrapper no-caption"><img align="none" alt="" class="alignnone size-portrait_small_2x wp-image-6093059" sizes="(max-width: 4375px) 100vw, 4375px" src="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/such-color-fall-preview-2021.jpg?w=560" srcset="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/such-color-fall-preview-2021.jpg 4375w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/such-color-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/such-color-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/such-color-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=600,400 600w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/such-color-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/such-color-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/such-color-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=550,367 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https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/such-color-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=192,128 192w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/such-color-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=375,250 375w" width="560" /></figure> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pulitzer Prize winner and former <a href="https://time.com/5220084/tracy-k-smith/">U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith</a> returns with a retrospective comprising selections from her four previous collections alongside 18 new poems. Highlighting the existential questions underlying Smith’s work—how does a history of trauma affect the present? What does hate do to the body and spirit? How does hope transcend?—these poems are especially resonant in their addressing anti-Black racism and misogynoir in the U.S. Haunting and vital, it’s the perfect encapsulation of a remarkable body of work.</span></p> <p><strong>Buy Now:</strong> <em>Such Color</em> on <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/4973/9781644450673" target="_blank">Bookshop</a> | <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1644450674/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=time-books-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1644450674&linkId=5d7ec65288b43d043521d3656549ff15" target="_blank">Amazon</a></p> <h2 class="p2"><strong><i>Fight Night</i>, Miriam Toews (Oct. 5)</strong></h2> <figure class="image-wrapper no-caption"><img align="none" alt="" class="alignnone wp-image-6093079 size-portrait_small_2x" height="373" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px" src="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/fight-night-fall-preview-2021.jpg?w=560" 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https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/fight-night-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=46,31 46w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/fight-night-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1012,675 1012w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/fight-night-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=2024,1349 2024w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/fight-night-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/fight-night-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=730,487 730w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/fight-night-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=345,230 345w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/fight-night-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=270,180 270w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/fight-night-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=192,128 192w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/fight-night-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=375,250 375w" width="560" /></figure> <p><a href="https://time.com/5562369/miriam-toews-women-talking/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Miriam Toews’</span></a> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Women Talking</span></i> <span style="font-weight: 400;">was a trenchant imagining of a real-life story of women uniting to fight their abusers. In her new novel, she draws on similar themes of women’s alliance and survival, this time rendered through 9-year-old Swiv and her firecracker grandmother. Written as a letter from Swiv to the father who abandoned her and her pregnant mother—an exercise encouraged by her grandmother—</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fight Night</span></i> <span style="font-weight: 400;">describes a precocious young girl making sense of a harsh world and a woman committed to spending her last years passing down hard-won wisdom about demanding and protecting one’s autonomy.</span></p> <p><strong>Buy Now:</strong> <em>Fight Night</em> on <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/4973/9781635578171" target="_blank">Bookshop</a> | <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B092QZ4W8F/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=time-books-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B092QZ4W8F&linkId=c78e2a15c6b3d1572968f5ae6bb03c4a" target="_blank">Amazon</a></p> <h2 class="p2"><strong><i>The Lincoln Highway</i>, Amor Towles (Oct. 5)</strong></h2> <figure class="image-wrapper no-caption"><img align="none" alt="" class="alignnone wp-image-6093055 size-portrait_small_2x" 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https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/the-lincoln-tunnel-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=192,128 192w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/the-lincoln-tunnel-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=375,250 375w" width="560" /></figure> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Best-selling author Amor Towles follows up his internationally acclaimed 2016 novel</span> <a href="https://time.com/5082975/barack-obama-2017-book-music-list/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">A Gentleman in Moscow</span></i></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">with another captivating piece of historical fiction, this one transporting readers to 1950s Americana. Eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson has done 15 months at a juvenile work camp for involuntary manslaughter when he’s released early to deal with his father’s death and the foreclosure of the family farm. When Emmett arrives at his Nebraska home, his neighbors aren’t pleased about the fact that he didn’t serve his full sentence, and his little brother, Billy, is convinced the mother who abandoned them is now in San Francisco—and that they need to go find her. Before they’re able to leave, though, Emmett discovers two stowaways who traveled out of the detention center with him and now insist he take them to New York instead. What follows is a rollicking cross-country adventure, rife with unforgettable characters, vivid scenery and suspense that will keep readers flying through the pages.</span></p> <p><strong>Buy Now:</strong> <em>The Lincoln Highway</em> on <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/4973/9780735222359" target="_blank">Bookshop</a> | <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0735222355/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=time-books-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0735222355&linkId=ee2a0604f2415ea1fd71c90bf7cb3b51" target="_blank">Amazon</a></p> <h2 class="p2"><strong><i>Silverview</i>, John le Carré (Oct. 12)</strong></h2> <figure class="image-wrapper no-caption"><img align="none" alt="" class="alignnone wp-image-6093049 size-portrait_small_2x" height="373" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px" src="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/silverview-fall-preview-2021.jpg?w=560" 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https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/silverview-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=46,31 46w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/silverview-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1012,675 1012w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/silverview-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=2024,1349 2024w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/silverview-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/silverview-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=730,487 730w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/silverview-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=345,230 345w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/silverview-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=270,180 270w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/silverview-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=192,128 192w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/silverview-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=375,250 375w" width="560" /></figure> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When he died last year, the legendary British spy novelist John le Carré left behind only one unpublished full-length novel.</span> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Silverview</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">,</span> to be <span style="font-weight: 400;">published posthumously</span> in October, <span style="font-weight: 400;">is the iconic writer’s 26th novel. The new installment in le Carré’s enormous body of work is another classic espionage tale. This time, the focus is on a bookseller living in contemporary Britain and the spy chief who arrives at his seaside town to investigate a potential leak.</span></p> <p><strong>Buy Now:</strong> <em>Silverview</em> on <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/4973/9780593490594" target="_blank">Bookshop</a> | <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0957T3TLN/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=time-books-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B0957T3TLN&linkId=b9a10260045c617c75b6f1b02ace2fdd" target="_blank">Amazon</a></p> <h2 class="p2"><strong><i>Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief</i>, Victoria Chang (Oct. 12)</strong></h2> <figure class="image-wrapper no-caption"><img align="none" alt="" class="alignnone wp-image-6093071 size-portrait_small_2x" height="373" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px" src="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/dear-memory-fall-preview-2021.jpg?w=560" 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https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/dear-memory-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=46,31 46w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/dear-memory-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1012,675 1012w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/dear-memory-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=2024,1349 2024w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/dear-memory-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/dear-memory-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=730,487 730w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/dear-memory-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=345,230 345w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/dear-memory-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=270,180 270w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/dear-memory-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=192,128 192w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/dear-memory-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=375,250 375w" width="560" /></figure> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Following her formally <a href="https://time.com/collection/must-read-books-2020/5904312/obit/">inventive poetry book</a></span> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">OBIT</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">—a collection of obituaries for the people, items and experiences she’s lost, spurred by her mother’s death—award-winning writer Victoria Chang further explores themes of grief and remembrance in this book of letters to family members, mentors and creative influences, as well as abstract ideas. Built on interviews with Chang’s immigrant mother and interwoven with mementos and formal documents, it’s both a chronicling of her family’s history and a powerful, stirring rumination on ancestry, inherited trauma and home.</span></p> <p><strong>Buy Now:</strong> <em>Dear Memory</em> on <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/4973/9781571313928" target="_blank">Bookshop</a> | <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1571313923/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=time-books-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1571313923&linkId=387fc920811f4a3dac1da75fef1f8f37" target="_blank">Amazon</a></p> <h2 class="p2"><strong><i>State of Terror</i>, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny (Oct. 12)</strong></h2> <figure class="image-wrapper no-caption"><img align="none" alt="" class="alignnone size-portrait_small_2x wp-image-6093063" sizes="(max-width: 4375px) 100vw, 4375px" src="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/state-of-terror-fall-preview-2021.jpg?w=560" 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https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/state-of-terror-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=46,31 46w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/state-of-terror-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1012,675 1012w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/state-of-terror-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=2024,1349 2024w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/state-of-terror-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/state-of-terror-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=730,487 730w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/state-of-terror-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=345,230 345w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/state-of-terror-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=270,180 270w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/state-of-terror-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=192,128 192w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/state-of-terror-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=375,250 375w" width="560" /></figure> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://time.com/time-person-of-the-year-2016-hillary-clinton-runner-up/">Hillary Rodham Clinton</a> pairs up with powerhouse mystery novelist Louise Penny for</span> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">State of Terror</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a political thriller full of action and intrigue. It’s a new era in American politics, and the just-sworn-in president announces Ellen Adams—leader of a highly influential media conglomerate and one of the president’s most powerful political enemies—as his choice for secretary of state. She’s up against a steep learning curve when a mysterious text to a young diplomat to Pakistan reveals a calculated, multinational conspiracy against the U.S. government—a government which spent the past four years losing ground as a global power. Through Adams and her ragtag defense team, working against an overwhelming enemy, Clinton and Penny create a heart-pounding mystery about terrorism, corruption and diplomacy, meticulously written with the promise of details only someone on the inside could contribute.</span></p> <p><strong>Buy Now:</strong> <em>State of Terror</em> on <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/4973/9781982173678" target="_blank">Bookshop</a> | <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08VJL9Z5X/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=time-books-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B08VJL9Z5X&linkId=15e1e804be9bb6546a12cb3d14b2c825" target="_blank">Amazon</a></p> <h2 class="p2"><strong><i>Oh William!</i>, Elizabeth Strout (Oct. 19)</strong></h2> <figure class="image-wrapper no-caption"><img align="none" alt="" class="alignnone size-portrait_small_2x wp-image-6093064" sizes="(max-width: 4375px) 100vw, 4375px" src="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/oh-william-fall-preview-2021.jpg?w=560" 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https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/oh-william-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=46,31 46w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/oh-william-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1012,675 1012w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/oh-william-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=2024,1349 2024w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/oh-william-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/oh-william-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=730,487 730w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/oh-william-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=345,230 345w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/oh-william-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=270,180 270w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/oh-william-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=192,128 192w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/oh-william-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=375,250 375w" width="560" /></figure> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At the core of Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout’s best-selling fiction are characters grappling with huge questions about love, loss and family through seemingly ordinary moments. The domestic dramas that fill her books lead to startling revelations about the complexities that accompany marriage, parenthood and growing old. Her new novel is no exception. In</span> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Oh William!</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Strout revisits her beloved character Lucy Barton, and</span> explores the protagonist’s relationship with her ex-husband<span style="font-weight: 400;">. The two have stayed close since their separation—and the discovery of a family secret might just bring them even closer.</span></p> <p><strong>Buy Now:</strong> <em>Oh William!</em> on <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/4973/9780812989434" target="_blank">Bookshop</a> | <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08PYR4X94/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=time-books-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B08PYR4X94&linkId=2b41c0960dbd61b30736fc2b7e20a19c" target="_blank">Amazon</a></p> <h2 class="p2"><strong><i>The Island of Missing Trees</i>, Elif Shafak (Nov. 2)</strong></h2> <figure class="image-wrapper no-caption"><img align="none" alt="" class="alignnone size-portrait_small_2x wp-image-6093073" sizes="(max-width: 4375px) 100vw, 4375px" src="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/the-island-of-missing-trees-fall-preview-2021.jpg?w=560" srcset="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/the-island-of-missing-trees-fall-preview-2021.jpg 4375w, 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https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/the-island-of-missing-trees-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=345,230 345w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/the-island-of-missing-trees-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=270,180 270w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/the-island-of-missing-trees-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=192,128 192w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/the-island-of-missing-trees-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=375,250 375w" width="560" /></figure> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">From award-winning <a href="https://time.com/5954987/angelina-jolie-elif-shafak-turkey/">British-Turkish writer Elif Shafak</a> comes a magical story about nature, humanity and love. On the island of Cyprus in 1974, two teenagers—Kostas, who is Greek and Christian, and Defne, who is Turkish and Muslim—nurture a deep but forbidden love in the tavern where they met, under the watch of a fig tree that’s been there since before the tavern was built. Shafak traces the long wake of Kostas and Defne’s love, from their secret courtship in the ’70s to 2010s London, where their 16-year-old daughter is frustrated by the secrecy of her family history. It’s a beautiful contemplation of some of life’s biggest questions about identity, history and meaning.</span></p> <p><strong>Buy Now:</strong> <em>The Island of Missing Trees</em> on <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/4973/9781635578591" target="_blank">Bookshop</a> | <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1635578590/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=time-books-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1635578590&linkId=f81fa0dd7141fbb7f7039d7497b06b2e" target="_blank">Amazon</a></p> <h2 class="p2"><strong><i>1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir</i>, Ai Weiwei (Nov. 2)</strong></h2> <figure class="image-wrapper no-caption"><img align="none" alt="" class="alignnone size-portrait_small_2x wp-image-6093051" sizes="(max-width: 4375px) 100vw, 4375px" src="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/1000-years-of-joys-and-sorrows-fall-preview-2021.jpg?w=560" srcset="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/1000-years-of-joys-and-sorrows-fall-preview-2021.jpg 4375w, 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https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/1000-years-of-joys-and-sorrows-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=345,230 345w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/1000-years-of-joys-and-sorrows-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=270,180 270w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/1000-years-of-joys-and-sorrows-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=192,128 192w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/1000-years-of-joys-and-sorrows-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=375,250 375w" width="560" /></figure> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This highly anticipated memoir from renowned artist and political activist <a href="https://time.com/4688548/ai-weiwei-ren-hang/">Ai Weiwei</a> is both intimate and expansive, an interrogation of art and freedom. After China’s Cultural Revolution, Weiwei’s father, the celebrated poet Ai Qing, was sentenced to hard labor in a remote area called “Little Siberia,” with his family—including young Weiwei—in tow. In</span> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows,</span></i> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Weiwei describes his complicated relationship with his home—from his upbringing in exile, to his decision to study art in the U.S., to his return to China as he grew into international fame. It’s a fascinating sociopolitical history, and a behind-the-scenes look at how one of the world’s most significant living artists became who he is.</span></p> <p><strong>Buy Now:</strong> <em>1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows</em> on <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/4973/9780553419467" target="_blank">Bookshop</a> | <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553419463/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=time-books-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0553419463&linkId=00688e2026a303aa599bef9a41619cb3" target="_blank">Amazon</a></p> <h2 class="p2"><strong><i>The Sentence</i>, Louise Erdrich (Nov. 9)</strong></h2> <figure class="image-wrapper no-caption"><img align="none" alt="" class="alignnone size-portrait_small_2x wp-image-6093061" sizes="(max-width: 4375px) 100vw, 4375px" src="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/the-sentence-fall-preview-2021.jpg?w=560" srcset="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/the-sentence-fall-preview-2021.jpg 4375w, 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https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/the-sentence-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=1012,675 1012w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/the-sentence-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=2024,1349 2024w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/the-sentence-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/the-sentence-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=730,487 730w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/the-sentence-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=345,230 345w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/the-sentence-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=270,180 270w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/the-sentence-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=192,128 192w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/the-sentence-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=375,250 375w" width="560" /></figure> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author <a href="https://time.com/5797582/louise-erdrich-the-night-watchman/">Louise Erdrich’s</a> latest novel is a profound and darkly funny story about Minneapolis in 2020, shown through the lens of a local independent bookstore. Tookie, a formerly incarcerated Indigenous woman working at Birchbark Books (an actual Minneapolis bookstore owned by Erdrich), is now being haunted—literally—by one of the store’s most annoying customers, a recently deceased white woman who was obsessed with claiming Native American ancestry. Spanning one calendar year, from Flora’s death on All Souls’ Day 2019 to November 2020,</span> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Sentence</span></i> <span style="font-weight: 400;">follows Tookie as she tries to solve the mystery of the store’s haunting while grappling with the specters of racism and corruption that haunt the entire city.</span></p> <p><strong>Buy Now:</strong> <em>The Sentence</em> on <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/4973/9780062671127" target="_blank">Bookshop</a> | <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08TWYG991/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=time-books-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B08TWYG991&linkId=037dc04e96f1f109c74ef02b6507fbaa" target="_blank">Amazon</a></p> <h2 class="p2"><strong><i>Five Tuesdays in Winter: Stories</i>, Lily King (Nov. 9)</strong></h2> <figure class="image-wrapper no-caption"><img align="none" alt="" class="alignnone size-portrait_small_2x wp-image-6093060" sizes="(max-width: 4375px) 100vw, 4375px" 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https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/five-tuesdays-in-winter-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/five-tuesdays-in-winter-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=730,487 730w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/five-tuesdays-in-winter-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=345,230 345w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/five-tuesdays-in-winter-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=270,180 270w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/five-tuesdays-in-winter-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=192,128 192w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/five-tuesdays-in-winter-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=375,250 375w" width="560" /></figure> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In her first collection of short stories, composed of previously published and new work, Lily King explores the highs and lows of human connection. In one, a bookseller has feelings for his employee. In another, a teenage boy makes an unexpected bond with a pair of college students. Like her acclaimed books</span> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Writers & Lovers</span></i> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and</span> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Euphoria</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, King’s latest finds characters longing for love and wrestling with change.</span></p> <p><strong>Buy Now:</strong> <em>Five Tuesdays in Winter</em> on <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/4973/9780802158765" target="_blank">Bookshop</a> | <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B092FQGTBM/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=time-books-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B092FQGTBM&linkId=5b2c84c4febc7bffbeef69b96c84e152" target="_blank">Amazon</a></p> <h2 class="p2"><strong><i>My Body</i>, Emily Ratajkowski (Nov. 9)</strong></h2> <figure class="image-wrapper no-caption"><img align="none" alt="" class="alignnone size-portrait_small_2x wp-image-6093057" sizes="(max-width: 4375px) 100vw, 4375px" 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2024w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/my-body-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=320,213 320w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/my-body-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=730,487 730w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/my-body-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=345,230 345w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/my-body-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=270,180 270w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/my-body-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=192,128 192w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/my-body-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=375,250 375w" width="560" /></figure> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Multi-hyphenate celebrity Emily Ratajkowski (model, actor, businesswoman) adds “author” to her resume with the release of</span> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">My Body</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, her collection of essays about <a href="https://time.com/4396276/emily-ratajkowski-feminism-ideal-body/">feminism</a>, sexuality, power and abuse. No stranger to discourse and scrutiny over women’s bodies—her fame blew up in 2013, when she starred in the music video for “Blurred Lines”—Ratajkowski brings nuanced insight to questions about empowerment versus commodification of women’s bodies and sexuality. Blending cultural criticism and personal stories,</span> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">My Body</span></i> <span style="font-weight: 400;">is smart and powerful.</span></p> <p><strong>Buy Now:</strong> <em>My Body</em> on <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/4973/9781250817860" target="_blank">Bookshop</a> | <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250817862/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=time-books-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1250817862&linkId=d06df7d4b0896a2bbff558752ac0ac3c" target="_blank">Amazon</a></p> <h2 class="p2"><strong><i>Dava Shastri’s Last Day</i>, Kirthana Ramisetti (Nov. 30)</strong></h2> <figure class="image-wrapper no-caption"><img align="none" alt="" class="alignnone size-portrait_small_2x wp-image-6093068" sizes="(max-width: 4375px) 100vw, 4375px" src="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/dava-shastris-last-day-fall-preview-2021.jpg?w=560" 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https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/dava-shastris-last-day-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=730,487 730w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/dava-shastris-last-day-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=345,230 345w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/dava-shastris-last-day-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=270,180 270w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/dava-shastris-last-day-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=192,128 192w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/dava-shastris-last-day-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=375,250 375w" width="560" /></figure> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When she’s diagnosed with brain cancer at 70 years old, one of the wealthiest women in the world, Dava Shastri, decides to end things on her own terms. The matriarch shocks her four adult children by leaking the news of her death while she is still very much alive in order to read what everyone has to say about her. But soon the secrets she buried long ago float up to the surface, and she’s forced to face the consequences. In her debut novel, Kirthana Ramisetti crafts a hilarious and heartfelt narrative about legacy, power and privacy, all through the journey of a lively character who has limited time to make things right with the people she loves most.</span></p> <p><strong>Buy Now:</strong> <em>Dava Shastri’s Last Day</em> on <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/4973/9781538703861" target="_blank">Bookshop</a> | <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1538703866/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=time-books-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1538703866&linkId=95c9b77b5c953e58d2742779f065068f" target="_blank">Amazon</a></p> <h2><b><em>Call Us What We Carry: Poems</em>, Amanda Gorman (Dec. 7)</b></h2> <figure class="image-wrapper no-caption"><img align="none" alt="" class="alignnone size-portrait_small_2x wp-image-6093053" sizes="(max-width: 4375px) 100vw, 4375px" src="https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/call-us-what-we-carry-fall-preview-2021.jpg?w=560" 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https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/call-us-what-we-carry-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=730,487 730w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/call-us-what-we-carry-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=345,230 345w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/call-us-what-we-carry-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=270,180 270w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/call-us-what-we-carry-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=192,128 192w, https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/call-us-what-we-carry-fall-preview-2021.jpg?resize=375,250 375w" width="560" /></figure> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In her new poetry collection,</span> <a href="https://time.com/5933596/amanda-gorman-michelle-obama-interview/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">the first ever National Youth Poet Laureate,</span></a> <a href="https://time.com/5933596/amanda-gorman-michelle-obama-interview/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Amanda Gorman</span></a>, <span style="font-weight: 400;">continues to share her vibrant voice and lyricism. Including the poem Gorman read at President Biden’s inauguration, “The Hill We Climb,” this collection features poetry centered on everything from grief to memory to hope. “For me, this book is a receptacle, a time capsule both made by and for its era,”</span> <a href="https://global.penguinrandomhouse.com/announcements/viking-to-publish-amanda-gormans-call-us-what-we-carry-poetry-collection-in-december/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Gorman said in a statement</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">released by her publisher. “What is poetry if not a mirror for our present and a message for our future?”</span></p> <p><strong>Buy Now:</strong> <em>Call Us What We Carry</em> on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0593465067/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=time-books-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0593465067&linkId=79809f493f485a358a3b2987031bcf78" target="_blank">Amazon</a></p> <img alt="" height="1" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/time/entertainment/~4/sg5ycjy90IQ" width="1" />

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