Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Writers, Outsiders, and the Spanish Civil War

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • An extraordinary account of the women artists and activists whose determination to live—and to create—with courage and conviction took them as far as the Spanish Civil War

“Now, as certainly as never before, we are determined or compelled, to take sides.” —Nancy Cunard

An attempted insurrection, a country divided, a democracy threatened. It was the Spanish Civil War of 1936, surprisingly, that Sarah Watling found herself drawn to when confounded by the tum...