From Jorge Luis Borges to George Orwell and Margaret Atwood, novelists have foreseen some of the major developments of our age. What can we learn from their prophecies?

Monday Closed for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Tuesday 5:30 p.m.: Let’s Talk About It (for adults). Join Focus on Race ...

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From award-winners to childhood favorites, find out what Iowa City is reading with a roundup of the most checked out library ...

The third annual Palm Springs Readers' Festival, organized by the Best Bookstore in Palm Springs, is set to return later this ...

Take part in the inaugural Gainesville Folk Festival beginning at noon Jan. 10 and continuing through the evening of Jan. 11 at Heartwood Soundstage. The two-day, multi-stage celebration brings ...

The Arts Council of Fayetteville/Cumberland County is exploring the connection between the past and the future in its upcoming Black History Month exhibition, “Kindred Visions.” The exhibition ...

Octavia Butler gave us a new kind of science fiction: not only as one of the first writers to use history to talk about the future, and not only as one of the first Black women to do it, but by ...

We can't all read as much as Ruchti, myself included, but we can benefit from his vast knowledge of what stood out in the ...

Ayana Jamieson has read every piece of Octavia Butler’s work that she has been able to get her hands on. Of course, she has read Butler’s published and unpublished novels, but Jamieson has also sifted ...

The Norwegian writer is known for his sprawling, brutally candid autofiction and speculative epics. Here’s where to start.

"Octavia's Stories" is the opening track from the album "Neural Resonance: Tales from the OmniSphere by Jair-Rohm Parker Wells " The track is a bass-forward composition inspired by the writing of ...