Twenty years after the publication of her final novel, author Octavia E. Butler’s fictionalized version of Los Angeles rings ...

In “Parable of the Sower,” Octavia E. Butler writes about a brutal, mid-2020s Southern California ravaged by wildfire, earthquakes and an addictive pharmaceutical that fuels a destructive drug ...

Grant Hoskins noticed the uptick of people coming in for a certain book after the fires. The Vroman’s bookseller saw all sorts of readers, teens, college students, parents and grandparents, “as broad ...

Influential writer Octavia Butler's literary legend may spread to a new type of fanbase with the introduction of a graphic novel adaptation of "Parable of the Talents," originally published as a novel ...

Reading Gerry Canavan’s “Octavia E. Butler” is like opening up a second screen on this great American writer. Not only does Canavan explicate the sources, patterns and preoccupations of Butler’s ...