Kelly Conniff

Conniff is deputy editor at TIME.

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There Is No Ethan

No one likes to think of themself as someone who can be easily fooled. And that’s especially true of Anna Akbari, a sociologist and former New York University professor who met a man who called...

By Kelly Conniff

The Friday Afternoon Club

Griffin Dunne's memoir The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir is shaped by his privileged upbringing in Los Angeles, as his family mingled with celebrities like Sean Connery and Natalie Wood. His boundless appetite for...

By Kelly Conniff

The Best Books of 2021 So Far

Some of the best books of the year so far provide welcome respite from the outside world—while others aim directly for the turbulence, providing frameworks to understand how the past informs our present. Michelle Zauner...

By Andrew R. Chow , Kelly Conniff , Lucy Feldman , Mahita Gajanan , Annabel Gutterman and Lucas Wittmann

Behind the Scenes of TIME's 100 Women of the Year Issue

Judith Heumann knew what it meant to be seen. In 1977, after regulations for the first federal disability-rights law stalled, Heumann, an activist and wheelchair user, organized a sit-in, crowding more than 100 disabled protesters...

By Kelly Conniff

The Business of Bringing Luxury to the Masses

Here’s the story of a cashmere sweater: ultra-fine fibers from the hairs of a particular goat, spun into delicate Italian thread. At Bergdorf’s, a Brunello Cucinelli pullover runs $3,215. J. Crew sells a similar style...

By Kelly Conniff

Watch a Daughter Totally Crush Her Dad in an Epic Beatbox Battle

Like father, like daughter

By Kelly Conniff

Watch This Dog Totally Rat Out Another Dog For Making a Mess

Dog on dog shaming

By Kelly Conniff

Everything You Wanted to Know About TIME’s Person of the Year

TIME’s Deputy Managing Editor Radhika Jones answers your questions about how the choice is made, how editors keep it a secret and why inanimate objects are eligible

By Kelly Conniff

11 Ways to Get Dressed for Work Without Going Crazy

A fashion insider offers tips for pulling yourself together

By Kelly Conniff

Where Do Babies Come From?

More U.S. parents are adopting from Ethiopia and Uganda, although shifting laws mean that could change soon

By Kelly Conniff

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LOVE IT• As a promo stunt for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, Pizza Hut built a real-life pizza thrower.• This summer the University of Virginia offered a Game of Thrones class on both the...

By Kelly Conniff

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LOVE IT• MIT students created a 3-D printer for ice cream. It extrudes soft-serve instead of plastic.• Kacy Catanzaro, a 5-ft.-tall former gymnast, became the first woman to complete the American Ninja Warrior course.• Beyoncé...

By Kelly Conniff

Prince George Checks Out a Butterfly in Cute New Birthday Photo

More official photographs of Prince George have been released, as the world gets ready to celebrate the young royal’s first birthday on Tuesday. The young prince, who was pictured walking on his own in a...

By Kelly Conniff

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LOVE IT• Web nerds, rejoice! Homestar Runner, one of the first meme-able Internet cartoons, will debut new episodes, likely this fall.• Hulu’s latest series, The Hotwives of Orlando, is a brilliant send-up of Bravo’s Real...

By Kelly Conniff

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LOVE IT• J.K. Rowling wrote a new short story describing the Harry Potter trio in their 30s. Accio nostalgia!• ABC cast Georgina Haig will play a real-life version of Elsa from Frozen on Once Upon...

By Kelly Conniff

The Many Faces of Middleton at Wimbledon

The Duchess of Cambridge's upper lip was anything but stiff as the reigning Wimbledon champ lost in the quarter-finals

By Kelly Conniff

Beyoncé and Jay Z Showed a Video From Their Secret Wedding Last Night

Bow down to the king and queen

By Kelly Conniff

5 Easy Ways to Hacker-Proof Your Home

Refrigerators hijacked to send malicious emails. TVs tapped to spy on their watchers. Baby monitors remotely rigged to stream a stranger’s voice.These aren’t outtakes from a cheesy sci-fi horror flick. They’re real situations that have...

By Kelly Conniff

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LOVE ITKristen Wiig and Bridesmaids co-writer Annie Mumolo will team up for a new movie, which Wiig will direct.A July update to text-display standard Unicode will enable 250 new emoji icons. We’d be lying if...

By Kelly Conniff

All The President's Socks: The Top 13 Pairs Worn by George H.W. Bush

June 12 is the former president's 90th birthday

By Olivia B. Waxman and Kelly Conniff
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