Each year in the U.S., a quarter of a million deaths are attributable to medical error. Killer Care lays out the very real dangers we face whenever we enter a hospital: rampant carelessness, overwork, ignorance, and hospitals trying to get the most out of their caregivers and the most money out of their patients. More

Collected in The Gulf is the work of the Gulf Labor Coalition, a group of writers and artists who have been pressuring Saadiyat Island’s Western cultural brands—including the Louvre, the Guggenheim, the British Museum and New York University—to ensure worker protections. More

In Language of War, Language of Peace, award-winning author Raja Shehadeh explores the politics of language in the Israeli-Palestine conflict, reflecting on the walls created—legal and cultural—that confine Palestinians as much as physical borders. More

An audacious collaboration between an award-winning novelist and a leading environmental philosopher, Love in the Anthropocene taps into one of the hottest topics of the day—our corrupted environment—to deliver five related stories that investigate a future bereft of natural environments. More

Why aren’t the great, qualified women already in tech being hired or promoted? Should women seek to join an institution that is actively hostile to them? Edited by tech veteran Elissa Shevinsky, Lean Out sees a possible way forward that uses tech and creative disengagement to jettison 20th century corporate culture. More

In Cess, Gordon Lish’s latest work, he delivers a characteristic exhibition of his peculiar deformities of candor, obsession, and wit, via two extended “notes” to the reader, including a pages-long list of essential but perplexing words. More

In the last few years, Clint Eastwood has become the point man for the American conservative movement, known for a certain lecture to an empty chair and his runaway hit “American Sniper.” Patrick McGilligan’s book is, for fans as well as non-fans, the ultimate life story of this corroded pillar of Hollywood. More

A collection of stories that range from the very short to the merely short, the forty-four tales in True False evoke extraordinary scenes in an understated manner that’s marked Klee one of today’s most intriguing writers. More

In Shell-Shocked, journalist and Gaza resident Mohammed Omer provides a first-hand account of life on-the-ground during Israel’s assault. He maintains a cool detachment, determined to create a precise record of what is occurring in front of him—but between the lines his outrage boils. More

In Trade Is War, Yash Tandon shows how the WTO is camouflaged in a rhetoric that hides its primary function as the servant of global business and that, for the vast majority of people, free trade not only hinders development — it visits relentless waves of violence and impoverishment on their lives. More

In Watchlist, some of today’s most prominent and promising fiction writers from around the globe respond to, reflect on, and mine for inspiration the surveillance culture in which we live. More

Who started the “War Against Drugs,” and why? What are its consequences in real terms, not mere statistics? Two legendary prize-winning writers, one Mexican and the other American, confront the issue head-on. More