Discover how Octavia Butler's prescient novel 'Parable of the Sower' serves as a roadmap for survival in our chaotic times.

As America faces growing uncertainty in 2025, certain books resonate more than ever, offering valuable lessons on power, ...

Japanese YouTuber Uketsu is best known for wearing a white papier-mache mask and making very surreal content. Now, he’s a ...

Butler’s 4x200 meter boys relay shined Saturday at an indoor track and field meet at Akron University (Ohio). The team of ...

And, of course, escapism is a supply-and-demand business. As the world requires more of the people in it, it also offers more ...

On a quiet summer evening in June 1990, Pico Iyer sat in his family home in Santa Barbara, California, when suddenly, he was ...

Science fiction writer Octavia Butler wrote in her 1993 novel "Parable of the Sower" that Feb. 1, 2025, would be a time of ...

Over 30 years ago, Octavia Butler imagined a Los Angeles ... “It’s hard not to read the books and think, ‘How did she know?’” Butler herself was quick to reject the notion that she ...

Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had imagined a Los ... how countries could fall into autocracy and read books about Nazi Germany. Butler remembered growing up during the Cold War in the ...

Welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter ... “Parable of the Sower,” by Octavia E. Butler: Speculative fiction set largely in a future (now present) Southern California ravaged by ...