1 MARTYR! (Vintage, $18). By Kaveh Akbar. A man tries to understand his tendency toward sadness and self-sabotage by writing ...

For many African Americans who built their lives and businesses in historically Black communities like Altadena, the combined ...

Hollywood pays tribute to the irreplaceable artifacts and cultural touchstones that were destroyed, from the ‘Wizard of Oz’ ...

The five-acre green space, named after Charles White, a local Black artist, was also scorched by ... her book “Parable of the Sower” has been deemed eerily prophetic. “There’s a big ...

The shop is gorgeous, with every single item displayed as if a photographer from House Beautiful or Martha Stewart Living was ...

When Octavia Butler published 1993’s Parable of the Sower — a sci-fi novel about California burning in 2024, following a presidential election of a candidate whose slogan is “Make America ...

A reader shared the following Facebook post (archived) with the question: "Is this meme accurate about Octavia Butler's book 'Parable of the Sower' and predicting the recent LA fires with a new ...

The grave of Butler, who died in 2006 at 58, is marked by a footstone etched with a quote from "Parable of the Sower," among her most famous novels: "All that you touch, you change. All that you ...

“People say Butler is prophetic because she sets Parable of the Sower in 2024. She’s only off by a few months,” says Briana Whiteside, a college professor-turned-public intellectual and ...

The grave of Butler, who died in 2006 at 58, is marked by a footstone etched with a quote from “Parable of the Sower,” among her most famous novels: “All that you touch, you change.