"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The dish rags were disconcerting. In the fall of 2019, author Helen Phillips had already accumulated a ...

Across several novels and short stories, writer Helen Phillips has explored the alienating effects of surveillance capitalism. Her glorious debut novel, “The Beautiful Bureaucrat,” centered on a ...

Written in taut, urgent prose, Hum is a work of speculative fiction that unflinchingly explores marriage, motherhood, and selfhood in a world compromised by global warming and dizzying technological ...

Hum, by Helen Phillips, opens with a woman trying not to flinch while a needle approaches her eye. Because, in this situation, if human error causes anything to go ...

Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose to pile onto our bedside tables. So we asked them, and all ...