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McTaggart’s “The Unreality of Time” (Mind 17 [1908]: 457–74) introduced the A series and the B series. McTaggart was inspired by F. H. Bradley’s Appearance and Reality, which was originally published in 1893. A corrected edition appeared in 1930 (Oxford: Clarendon Press). Neither Bradley nor McTaggart is recommended for beginners.

D. C. Williams’ “The Myth of Passage” (Journal of Philosophy 48 [1951]: 457–72) contains an accessible and influential discussion of the passage of time. Ambitious readers might look at Theodore Sider’s Four-Dimensionalism: An Ontology of Persistence and Time (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).

My discussion does not come close to covering the extensive body of work on time. I omit discussion of the distinction between “3-dimensionalism” and “4-dimensionalism,” for instance. Katherine Hawley’s How Things Persist (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001) more than fills the gap. Storrs McCall, in A Model of the Universe (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994), defends an intermediate position according to which the universe is constantly expanding at the “leading edge” along a temporal dimension.

I have omitted, as well, a discussion of time travel. If you are interested, David Lewis’s “The Paradoxes of Time Travel,” in his Philosophical Papers, vol. 2 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986) introduces the subject in an appealing way. Heather Dyke, in “The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Time Travel” (Think 3 [2005]: 43–52), provides a compact, reader-friendly discussion.