[Phillips’s] work recreates the mood of a working-class, unhip, industrious, dangerous and now-lost America . . . but his interest in the American dream’s underbelly of failure and disappointment is real.
[Phillips’s] work recreates the mood of a working-class, unhip, industrious, dangerous and now-lost America . . . but his interest in the American dream’s underbelly of failure and disappointment is real.