Books can turn up in your life when you need them. What does the resurgent popularity of a dystopian novel say about modern ...

The LA central library’s Octavia Lab provides free access to recording studios, 3D printers, video editing software. All you ...

The brisk sales of Octavia Butler’s ninth novel, “The Parable of the Sower” is especially notable since Butler, who died in 2006, was born in Pasadena. A middle school there bears her name.

the protagonist of Butler’s 1993 novel Parable of the Sower Photo: Dan Bradica; Courtesy of American Artist and Pioneer Works Octavia E. Butler’s writing has never been more relevant.

From explorations of motherhood to climate fiction, women are setting the tone in climate literature and action.

The works of Afrofuturist author Octavia Butler seem to be chillingly prescient ... and Afrofuturism” class at UCLA, calls “Parable of the Sower,” an admittedly “difficult” book ...