Radical Hope is a collection of letters-to ancestors, to children five generations from now, to strangers in grocery lines, to any and all who feel weary and discouraged-written by award-winning novelists, poets, political thinkers, and...

"Cantoras is a stunning lullaby to revolution-and each woman in this novel sings it with a deep ferocity. Again and again, I was lifted, then gently set down again-either through tears, rage, or laughter. Days later, I am still inside...

In defiance of the brutal military government that took power in Uruguay in the 1970s, and under which homosexuality is a dangerous transgression, five women miraculously find one another-and, together, an isolated cape that they claim...