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The best new books of 2022 include celebrity memoirs, page-turning fantasy novels, romantic reads, and more. Get acquainted with the best new books of 2022.

In 'The World Cannot Give,' writer Tara Isabella Burton reckons with both grand questions and contemporary trials.

The political unrest and isolation of the past few years have driven most people a bit haywire. The traditional friend you grew up with has become a seething Catholic reactionary. Your once-liberal buddy has started scrawling “ACAB” everywhere. These things, already difficult for an adult to navigate, can be even more so for an adolescent, who by nature struggles to define the self against abstraction.

Influence and infatuation can make characters behave in surprising, and sometimes devastating, ways. Here, author Tara Isabella Burton discusses writing about influence in fiction.

Acclaimed author Tara Isabella Burton discusses the decade of work that went into her new literary novel, The World Cannot Give.

A tale of beauty, religion, and how easy it is to exploit them