Many have called Butler a prophet for her futuristic prediction on L.A. fires in her novel 'Parable of the Sower,' but her ...

The grave of Octavia Butler, whose novel "Parable Of The Sower" predicted fires engulfing Los Angeles, still stands at a ...

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

I wanted to put together a quick list of Southern California independent bookstores. But I found, even just writing down ...

I’m very comfortable with the level of ambition I have for my books,” says the ubiquitous BBC talk show host, who calls ...

Book-lovin’ columnist David Allen offers highlights from what he read in 2024, from “Middlemarch” to histories of Riverside ...

From Cory Doctorow to Nnedi Okorafor and from fancy space opera to elegantly written visions of a flooded future world, there ...

A May-December friendship, a gripping marital mystery and self-improvement for the new year — plus new celebrity books — here are PEOPLE's picks for the best books of December. When 90-year ...

Each of these titles exercises a different kind of reading muscle, so that you can choose the one that will push you most.

A popular one is finishing an arbitrary number of books; another approach is to establish specific parameters—reading only titles by women for a year, meeting a quota for books in translation ...

Jimmy Butler could be the next major NBA star on the move. The Miami Heat forward indicated Thursday he wants to be traded from the team, which came off the heels of a 128-115 home loss to the ...