In the third instalment of our Rebuilding LA series, we zoom in on businesses and the architecture and social fabric around them ...

Octavia Butler's seminal sci-fi novel Parable of the Talents is getting a graphic novel adaptation, and we've got an exclusive preview.

Unveiled last Friday at Octavia's Bookshelf in Pasadena, with illustrator John Jennings in attendance for a Q&A, the ...

Culture editor Alison Flood rounds up the book club’s thoughts on our latest read, the weird and wild Dengue Boy by Michel Nieva. Warning: spoilers ahead ...

The dystopian America Octavia Butler imagines in her novels Parable of the Sower and ... Butler reflects on an encounter with a student at one of her book signings. The young man asked her if she ...

In Problem Solving, Marshall’s B team took gold, while (CIS) and Sierra Madre Middle’s B teams earned silver, and Marshall’s A and Octavia Butler’s A teams won bronze. 7th grade (11 teams competing) ...

Books by Robert P. Jones, Anthea Butler, Jim Wallis, Maya Angelou and Ibram X. Kendi are among the 381 volumes banned from the U.S. Naval Academy library by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth last week ...

This archive spans five decades, but Yang chooses to focus exclusively on Butler’s juvenilia, offering “a rare glimpse of Octavia’s life via her youthful writings”. This focus, the author explains, ...

Book reviews: ‘Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash’ and ‘Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry’ Feature The dirty global trash trade and Robert Frost’s poetic life ...

In the book I published last year, Who’s Afraid of Gender?, I noted that the campaign against ‘gender ideology’ was very late to gain ground in the US. The term itself was coined by the Vatican back ...

The only rule is that the author has to be Black. I try to recommend sci-fi/fantasy or magical realism to my family when it’s my pick since that’s outside their comfort zones. I am going to assume you ...

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