When American writer Helen Phillips begins a new project, she dives into research surrounding topics that she's anxious about ...

In many ways, Helen Phillips’ new novel Hum is less a pure, plot-driven speculative fiction story than a good old-fashioned dystopian allegory of the present ‒ fable-like and motherhood-centric. It is ...

Helen Phillips is the Brooklyn author of six books including novel The Need, which was nominated for the National Book Award, ...

But who—or what—she comes across that evening is only the beginning of Helen Phillips’ thoughtful and suspenseful novel. Snappy, unsettling sentences guide readers into the worn-out mind of ...