Her “Parable of the Sower” has been cited for anticipating a world — and a Los Angeles — wracked by climate change, racism ...

The phrase, which gained momentum in 2020, has resurfaced, in part because it can seem like Octavia Butler was more than a ...

Sonali Kolhatkar is an award-winning journalist and author and host of the radio ... the historically Black community, where Octavia Butler is buried? There’s a lovely, amazing Black-owned ...

2 1/2 stars (out of 4); Neva Gronert, Parker “Kindred,” by Octavia Butler (Beacon Press ... With little fanfare, Butler became the author by whom fans evaluate success in the genre.

Her 2002 work, “Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea (We’re Going to Mars),” was more than a trip into Afrofuturism in the tradition of Sun Ra, George Clinton and Octavia Butler. The journey to Mars ...

Around the time Elon Musk launched his SpaceX quest to colonize Mars, Nikki Giovanni published a poem on what we should take there and what we should leave behind. Her 2002 work, “Quilting the ...

“Parable of the Talents,” by Octavia Butler, “Playlist for the Apocalypse,” by Rita Dove, “Ninetails,” by Sally Wen Mao, and a sprinkle of Harry Crews. How do you organize your book ...

Her 2002 work, “Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea (We’re Going to Mars),” was more than a trip into Afrofuturism in the tradition of Sun Ra, George Clinton and Octavia Butler. The journey to Mars ...