Still seeking answers from Seoul's Halloween tragedy

ONE WORD TORE CHOI JOUNG-JOO'S WORLD APART.

Matthew Perry

Friends comic and recovery advocate

A push for stricter gun laws in Maine

A MASS SHOOTING THAT LEFT 18 people dead at a bar and a bowling alley in Lewiston, Maine, on Oct. 25 is putting a spotlight on the state's legal laxity on gun safety. Specifically, Maine doesn't have some measures that have been shown to reduce gun deaths or homicides, such as laws that require gun permits which some research found was associated with a 60% reduced risk of mass shootings-or universal background checks for handgun sales.

INSIDE GAZA'S HOSPITALS

Struggling to care for the 2 million civilians caught in the Israel-Hamas War

A Newer World Order

Tighter export controls on computer chips escalate the U.S. rivalry with China

5 ways to set boundaries around work

Setting boundaries at work-economy-might seem like a pipe dream. Not be available 24/7? Not smile and accept every new assignment? Not push back when a colleague tries to steal your time?

5 ways to tap into nostalgia's health benefits

When people walk into Keri Piehl's retro toy store in Albuquerque, N.M., their eyes light up. Wooden spinning tops, yo-yos, trolls, rainbow lava lamps, scratch-and-sniff stickers-it's like time travel, unlocked.

Move over, Halloween: 2023 is one long costume party

Hanging in Khloé Lewis' closet is a shimmering lavender party dress with a single puffed sleeve, a bedazzled minidress with matching cowboy hat, and a rose-colored shirt. She wore these items to Taylor Swift's Eras Tour, Beyoncé's Renaissance World Tour, and the Barbie movie, respectively.

Sly Stone The American music icon on his new memoir, reclaiming his past from myth at 80, and forgiving himself

How are you feeling these days? I feel good in my mind, but my health is not very good. I have COPD, which reduces my lung capacity, and other problems too. For part of this year I couldn't hear almost at all until I got a hearing aid.

The Eras Tour will make anyone a believer

SINCE HUMANKIND HAS BEEN WALKING upright, and maybe even when we still had fins for arms, we've been attracted to shiny, shimmering things. In concert, Taylor Swift is exactly that.

MORE THAN A TEENAGE DREAM

With the quietly extraordinary Priscilla, Sofia Coppola mines the inner life of the girl who fell for Elvis Presley

BEST INVENTIONS 2023

For our annual list of the year's most exciting innovations, TIME editors hunted through products and services to select 200 inventions that make the world better, smarter, or just more fun.

Seeing Gaza

SAHER ALGHORRA HAS LONG LOVED TO DOCUMENT both the beauty and challenges of life in Gaza. That's what first drove the 27-year-old Gaza native to become a photojournalist. But even Alghorra-who has already lived through the devastating 2008 and 2014 Gaza-Israel conflicts was not prepared for what has transpired this month. \"The humanitarian situation here is extremely catastrophic,\" Alghorra tells TIME.

Loved Ones

ACROSS 75 YEARS, ISRAEL HAS BUILT itself around a military so formidable in battle that the country qualifies as a warrior state. But for the 2,000 years before that, the story of the Jews was one of perseverance through persecution, flight, and the kind of intimate, house-to-house slaughter Israelis awoke to on the morning of Oct. 7.

A boost for Poland's democracy, and the E.U.

IN POLAND, AN UNEXpected surge of voters ready for change has ousted a populist coalition government in favor of a pro-E.U., more moderate group of leaders. The Law and Justice Party, in power since 2015, won the most parliamentary seats. But its coalition partners didn't perform well enough to allow current Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski to form another government.

THE CASE FOR ANXIETY

Anxiety. The very word evokes discomfort. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, half of young American adults deal with it, so it's no wonder that this epidemic is causing us so much concern. But, as a clinician and researcher, I see a much bigger problem: in our society's quest to be anxiety-free, we tend to miss out on many valuable opportunities presented by this normal human emotion.

Mega-author John Grisham returns to his roots, in Memphis and on the page

ON A RACK AT THE FRONT OF BURKE'S BOOK Store in Memphis is a postcard showing the shop in an earlier era, overhung by a billboard that's no longer there.

Go Midwest, young man

JAKE VIA, WHO HAS LIVED EVERYWHERE FROM Fortaleza, Brazil, and Seattle to Sun Valley, Idaho, and Austin, calls Milwaukee \"the greatest city on earth.\" And he's serious.

Suzanne Somers

Entrepreneurial actor

Why is the internet obsessed with fall?

AUTUMN DIDN'T OFFICIALLY BEGIN UNTIL SEPT. 23, but for TikToker Chasitey Pounds, it started in June. Pounds, 26, is one of many content creators who cultivate followings with comforting autumn visuals like pumpkin-spice lattes, candles, and chunky sweaters.

THE 100 BEST MYSTERY & THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME

The genre's most gripping, twist-filled, satisfying, and influential books, in chronological order

NEXT GENERATION LEADERS

10 TRAILBLAZERS OFFERING NEW VISIONS FOR THE FUTURE

Prime Is Money

HOW DEION SANDERS FLIPPED COLORADO'S FORTUNES AND BECAME THE MOST TALKED-ABOUT MAN IN SPORTS

IN THEIR OWN WORDS

The unique stress of growing up right now-and how young Americans are coping

After McCarthy, a House in disarray

When asked the advice he would give the next speaker of the house, Kevin McCarthy replied, "Change the rules."

What Beyoncé gave us

ON SEPT. 23 AND 24, HOUSTON WAS HOST TO BEYONCÉ'S brilliance.

Ukraine shows how drones are changing warfare

WAR SPURS INNOVATION. OBSERVING LIFE AND DEATH on Ukraine's battlefield, it's evident to us that modern warfare now transforms at startup speeds.

Health Matters

Depending on whom you ask, Oregon and Washington have been either reckless or trailblazing.

GOODBYE, COLUMBUS

To fully understand the deep roots of the toxic blend of ethno-religious identity politics known today as white Christian nationalism, we need to go back at least to 1493not the year Christopher Columbus \"sailed the ocean blue,\" but the year he returned to a hero's welcome in Spain, bringing with him gold, brightly colored parrots, and nearly a dozen captive Indigenous people.

The human toll of Poland's strict abortion laws

SINCE A 2020 RULING BY THE country's Constitutional Tribunal, Poland has had a near-total ban on abortion. There have been mass women-led protests ever since.