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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

What Contraception Meant to a Century of Women Writers

Julie Philips on Reproductive Justice and the Great 20th-Century Mother-Writers

By Julie Phillips | August 5, 2019

Stop Calling Paul Beatty an 'Angry' Writer

Stop Calling Paul Beatty an 'Angry' Writer

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

At 80, the Iconic Writer Reflects on Brexit, Mortality, and the Literary Life

By Julie Phillips | February 9, 2017

Petina Gappah on Zimbabwe, Language, and

Petina Gappah on Zimbabwe, Language, and "Afropolitans"

An Interview with the author of The Book of Memory

By Julie Phillips | February 22, 2016

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