At one point early in her new book I Could Name God in Twelve Ways: Essays, Karen Salyer McElmurray writes, “With memoir, we become accountable.”

Karen Salyer McElmurray sets her extraordinary story of Miracelle Loving’s heroic quest to unravel the dark mysteries of her origins against the hardscrabble Appalachian landscape.

Barbara Riddle’s 2013 novel The Girl Pretending to Read Rilke is set in Cambridge, Massachusetts during the summer of 1963, which was not only a seminal period for its protagonist, 19- year-old Bronwen, but for the entire nation as well.

Richard Ford’s Be Mine: A Frank Bascombe Novel, is the fifth in a series narrated by Frank Bascombe, a failed novelist turned successful New Jersey real estate agent, and one of American literature’s iconic fictional characters.

In the Acknowledgments at the end of R.F. Kuang’s new novel, Yellowface, she writes that the book is “…in large part, a horror story about loneliness in a fiercely competitive industry.”

POVERTY is one subject Matthew Desmond knows intimately, which sets him apart from other sociologists who study only the poor, but not why they are poor.

Two lifelong friends, photographer Terry Wild, and poet/writer Lori Joseph, have collaborated to produce a brief, but beautiful and insightful reflection on aging in a society that Joseph claims “…has experienced a deep decline in empathy….”

As an investigative journalist, whenever Morgan Fay wrote about people who risked everything for a just cause, she often wondered if she could do the same.

On the evening of July 9 2009, the Buenos Aires-based writer and journalist Javier Sinay received an email from his father Horacio. Its contents sent him on a journey into his own past.

In Wolfgang Hilbig’s novel The Interim, the protagonist C. is an East German writer who spent decades stoking boilers in the labyrinthine bowels of an industrial complex – working nights so he could be alone to write.