Honorees at the 2026 TIME100 Gala gathered to acknowledge the importance of kindness, community, and courage. Actor and producer Alan Cumming, two-time Olympic gold medalist Chloe Kim, co-chair of the World Health Organization’s Intergovernmental Negotiating Body Precious Matsoso, and actor and producer Zoe Saldaña delivered toasts at the event. Here’s what they toasted to. See the best photos of the night here.

At the TIME100 Summit, pop star turned fashion designer Victoria Beckham shared how two recent docuseries shifted her perspective on control.

Actor and singer Kate Hudson opened up about life in the spotlight and her Oscar nomination for her performance in Song Sung Blue.

Singer and actor Hilary Duff has released a new album about a decade after yer last one. Duff spoke at the TIME100 Summit about the “extreme honesty” of the album, being a teen icon, and more.

It seems like it was only yesterday that audiences watched reality TV personality Maura Higgins get the rug pulled from under her on The Traitors. While co-hosting the red carpet livestream at the TIME100 Gala, she seized the opportunity for a post-mortem Q&A with Traitors host Alan Cumming.

Last Night in Brooklyn. The protagonist of Xochitl Gonzalez’s new novel, 26-year-old college graduate Alicia, moves in with her mother and falls under the spell of a fashionista called “La Garza”. As the presidential election of 2008 kicks into gear, Alicia grapples with ambivalence about her future direction, an out-of-town boyfriend, and the allure of a diva on the rise. Read more.

Small Town Girls. The Appalachian hamlet of Buckhannon, W. Va., serves as the backdrop for Pulitzer Prize winner Jayne Anne Phillips’ memoir as she evokes a coming-of-age amid Main Street newspaper stands, Protestant churches, beauty-queen rituals, fields of “tasseled corn,” and “thick stalks of Queen’s Lace.” Read more.

Dreamt I Found You. Jimin Han’s graceful novel reimagines the legend of Chunhyang and Mongryong, Korea’s version of Romeo and Juliet, as 30-year-old Dahee seeks to protect her cousin Channing from the wiles of a Korean American community in New England. Read more.

Unchosen. This new psychological drama on Netflix follows Rosie (Molly Windsor) and Adam (Asa Butterfield), a married couple living inside the Fellowship of the Divine, a secluded religious sect where strict rules govern behavior, intimacy, and punishment. We break down the ending here.

I Swear. I Swear tells the remarkable story of John Davidson, an activist from the town of Galashiels in Scotland, but it isn’t the first film about Davidson. Here’s how this one came be.