Isabella Biedenharn

Her drive to exonerate the Serial subject reopened a seemingly shut case. Now, with a new book, a hit podcast, and a legion of armchair acolytes, Rabia Chaudry just might change the course of justice.

How a teen pop star overcame a bitter legal battle and family tragedy for a comeback album that’s been a decade in the making

Lin-Manuel Miranda, Kelly Clarkson, and more explain the stories behind the songs.

IT’S 11 A.M. AND HALEY BENNETT is on her third cup of coffee. “I’m heating it up for the 10th time,” she says, laughing. She’s chipper but ready for a break: “I’m going to Italy tomorrow, so I’ve been up every night for the past three nights in anticipation of my first vacation in two years.”

Bream is hardly Eisenberg’s first literary effort: In addition to a plethora of short humor pieces, he’s penned three plays and even a novel, although he promises we’ll never see it. “Everybody who ends up putting a book out has a shitty novel from college,” Eisenberg says. “I would not ever publish mine. It’s not good.”

In the midst of his whirlwind tour, EW talked to Asher about how Hannah’s suicide could have been prevented, why teens find his characters so relatable, and why we need to open up about issues like suicide and bullying, no matter how uncomfortable they might seem.

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