A post-pandemic novel with a fairy tale twist, Julia Phillips’ Bear is a harrowing story of economic hardship
- Written by Tamlyn Avery, Lecturer in American Studies, The University of Queensland
Yadav Anil/ShutterstockWith her second novel Bear, Julia Phillips consolidates her position as a leading novelist of the cartographic margins.
Her first novel Disappearing Earth, a National Book Award finalist and one of the New York Times Book Review’s 10 best books of 2019, was set in Russia’s remote Kamchatka Peninsula; her second...





