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The Way of Water: On the Quiet Power of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Activism

The Way of Water: On the Quiet Power of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Activism

Julie Phillips Considers a Beloved Author’s Lifetime of Helping With the Housework of Democracy

By Julie Phillips | January 3, 2025

“Complete Attention to Two Things at Once.” On the Women Who Rewrote the Motherhood Plot

“Complete Attention to Two Things at Once.” On the Women Who Rewrote the Motherhood Plot

Julie Phillips Considers the Groundbreaking British Mother-Writers of the 1960s, from A.S. Byatt to Lorna Sage

By Julie Phillips | April 26, 2022

What Contraception Meant to a Century of Women Writers

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Stop Calling Paul Beatty an 'Angry' Writer

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Talking to the Author of the Man Booker Prize-Winning The Sellout

By Julie Phillips | June 20, 2017

A.S. Byatt: I Have Not Yet Written Enough

A.S. Byatt: I Have Not Yet Written Enough

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By Julie Phillips | February 9, 2017

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