As wildfires ravaged parts of Los Angeles, readers said the science fiction writer predicted this in her 1993 work and its ...

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

Since the fires began, Butler's works have been cited for anticipating a world - and, particularly, a Los Angeles - wracked ...

Bookshelves have been replaced with food and toiletries, bins with packs of toothbrushes and other items were piled high in ...

Filmmaker Jordan Peele selects his favorite Black authors in ‘Out There Screaming,’ an anthology of stories. The book serves ...

Apocalypse as a happy ending? Only in Los Angeles. It's an idea that's epicentral to the identity of the place.

I have friends who lost houses. I have family who were burned out of their home. Los Angeles has lost churches, synagogues, ...

The San Francisco Public Library kicks off more than a month's worth of Black History Month programming starting with the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. Up first, a look at Black horror and its ...

Eaton wildfire in Los Angeles devastates Altadena's Black community, leaving many without insurance and struggling to rebuild ...

The author of the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club on the science that lies behind his novel Alien Clay, set on a ...

Under the arched wooden ceilings of Berkeley’s newest bookshop, you’ll find a rolling library ladder, velvet green couches, and yes, lots of books — but also a wine dispenser wedged between the ...

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