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How Jenny Jackson wrote a best-selling novel while her kids were in the bath

Two decades ago, Jenny Jackson put aside her own writing dreams to become a book editor-but now her debut novel, Pineapple Street, is a New York Times best seller and a Good Morning America book-club pick, and has already been optioned for TV. The wildest part? She wrote it in four months, while holding down her job and raising a 2-year-old and a 5-year-old. She also managed to talk to TIME as part of our series on how parenting shapes the people who shape the world; find more at time.com/parent-files

IT'S A MEAN, MEAN WORLD

As a plot driver, the traumatic home invasion has long been a staple of both film pulp-movies like Cape Fear, Death Wish, and John Wick-and artier projects like Michael Haneke's Funny Games and Ari Aster's anxious new Beau Is Afraid. All play into our collective fears of lawless hooligans invading our personal space. But a plot device, as every sane person knows, is simply a tool for the creation of fantasy

Defending French Open champion Iga Swiatek plays for more than titles

WHEN IGA SWIATEK, THE WORLD'S TOPranked women's tennis player, travels to tournaments around the globe, her bag is filled with the usual accoutrements of superstars in her sport: racket, wardrobe, Legos. OK, Swiatek is likely the only three-time major winner toting around tiny plastic bricks. During the pandemic, Swiatek began toying with Legos; she finds the process of building the Disney World castle, or a Porsche, or the International Space Station relaxing.

What's next for misoprostol, the other abortion pill?

THE ABORTION PILL MIFEPRISTONE HAS been on uncertain legal ground since a Texas judge ruled on April 7 that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)'s approval more than two decades ago should be suspended. After the Department of Justice appealed the decision and requested that the Supreme Court step in, the high court decided that mifepristone should remain available while courts continue to decide its legal fate.

CLEARING THE FIELD

Why a President most voters say shouldn't run faces no real party challenge

Pat & Candy & Allan & Betty

NOBODY WAS SUPPOSED TO GET hurt.

WHAT LIES BENEATH

Grappling with how to approach great works of art by bad men in the book Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

ARSENAL of DEMOCRACY

The race to arm Ukraine

Cheryl Strayed is Here for You

The Tiny Beautiful Things author revisits her advice column in a television series

TIME 100 The most influential people in the world - ICONS

PEDRO PASCAL, SALMAN RUSHDIE, KING CHARLES III, BRITTNEY GRINER, SHAH RUKH KHAN + MORE

TIME 100 The most influential people in the world - INNOVATORS

SEAN SHERMAN, KYLIAN MBAPPÉ, NATASHA LYONNE, WANJIRA MATHAI, JERROD CARMICHAEL + MORE

TIME 100 The most influential people in the world - PIONEERS

S.S. RAJAMOULI, MIKAELA SHIFFRIN, BELLA HADID, SAM ALTMAN, ROBIN ZENG + MORE

TIME 100 The most influential people in the world - LEADERS

LUIZ INÁCIO LULA DA SILVA, MARGRETHE VESTAGER, FUMIO KISHIDA, JOE BIDEN, SHERRY REHMAN + MORE

TIME 100 The most influential people in the world - TITANS

LIONEL MESSI, BEYONCÉ, SHOU ZI CHEW, LAURENE POWELL JOBS, PADMA LAKSHMI + MORE

A heist gone wrong triggers a dark night of the soul

It's a wonder we didn't all go mad. How did we even survive the early days of the pandemic, a seemingly interminable epoch during which many of us spent long hours holed up in our sad little towers, captives in sweatpants gazing longingly at the outside world?

Great Expectations

How Bad Bunny bent global pop culture to his will-by refusing to compromise on anything

10 Questions

For this issue's profile of Bad Bunny, the global superstar spoke to TIME (mostly) in Spanish and inspired our first Spanish-language back-page interview

5 health benefits of houseplants

Collecting and caring for houseplants boomed in popularity during the pandemic, especially among younger adults without abundant outdoor space.

Alison Roman Won't Sugarcoat It

She cooked her way through a controversy. Now she's ready to talk about it

'Final' climate report

Unsettling unknowns

Should I take a pill to prevent Long COVID?

RECENT PRELIMINARY RESEARCH HAS found that certain medications may reduce the chance of developing Long COVID if taken shortly after catching COVID-19.

The history of Presidents who (almost) got indicted

DONALD TRUMP COULD MAKE HISTORY ONCE again—this time as the first former U.S. President ever to be criminally indicted. If it happens, it’s apt to be by the Manhattan grand jury probing his alleged hush-money payment to former porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election. Daniels, real name Stephanie Clifford, says she and Trump had an affair; Trump denies this.

THE POINT OF COLLEGE

Soon after the 2008-9 financial crash tanked the economy, Americans' unflagging faith in higher education started to falter. By 2011, more than half of college graduates were unor underemployed. The economy rebounded and the conversation faded, only to be revived again by the epic fallout from the pandemic. This time, the college degree's comeuppance has been more profound.

Health Matters

CLIMATE EXPERTS HAVE LONG warned about the many ways a warming planet can negatively affect human health. Now that global temperatures are predicted to increase by 1.5°C by the 2030s, that risk is becoming increasingly real.

Working through grief after losing my father

AFTER MY FATHER DIES, I BECOME, FOR A time, someone I do not recognize. Entire weeks are all but lost to me, scooped out of my once airtight memory. Our rental term ends two months after the funeral, and when we move into another house, I hardly remember packing or unpacking.

An artist creates, amid distraction and because of it

MAKING ANYTHING OF VALUE—A work of art, a poem, a solid piece of furniture—demands a deep descent into the self, to the point that it’s easy to neglect the needs of others in your orbit.

Ali Wong and Steven Yeun face off in a BEEF for the ages

IMPLICIT IN EVERY VIRAL ROAD-RAGE video is the same question: What is wrong with these people? BEEF, a wild black comedy from first-time creator Lee Sung Jin, delves deep into the sources and fallout of two L.A. motorists’ fury.

The case for betting on Tom Wambsgans' Succession

MIDWAY THROUGH THE THIRD SEASON of Succession, Tom Wambsgans tells his underling and cousin by marriage, Greg Hirsch, a colorful anecdote from an empire in decline. “Sporus was a young slave boy—he was Nero’s favorite,” Tom (Matthew Macfadyen) explains.

THE DARING OF GEHRY

Revisiting the museum that started it all, the 94-year-old architect reflects on his methods, his influence, and his ambitious new projects

Crimes and Punishment

AS THE WAR DRAGS ON AND EVIDENCE OF RUSSIAN ATROCITIES MOUNTS, UKRAINE SEEKS JUSTICE