Her grave is marked by a quote from her celebrated novel Parable of the Sower: “All that you touch ... “It’s hard not to read the books and think, ‘How did she know?’” ...
The West Coast is on fire. Sea level rise is slowly eating away at our shores, and record-breaking floods have come for the Midwestern states. Wealth ...
People can be snobs about science fiction, and I admit that until a few years back I was one of them. Meanwhile, I had ...
There were no books by Black women in the store’s ... sometimes minutes feel like entire generations fit within them. In “Parable of the Sower,” Lauren is a fifteen-year-old Black girl ...
On a quiet summer evening in June 1990, Pico Iyer sat in his family home in Santa Barbara, Calif., when suddenly, he was surrounded by walls of flames five stories high.
Now intimately familiar with a wildfire's destructive powers, many who came to hear Iyer speak clutched his book with a fiery ... Butler's novel ”Parable of the Sower," considered prophetic ...