With the final season of "The Handmaid’s Tale" upon us, Gilead’s chilling grip on our imagination feels more relevant than ...

In this week’s episode of Big Country Politics, Arlene Kasselman, owner of the bookstore Seven and One Books, discussed House ...

Octavia Butler's seminal sci-fi novel Parable of the Talents is getting a graphic novel adaptation, and we've got an ...

Unveiled last Friday at Octavia's Bookshelf in Pasadena, with illustrator John Jennings in attendance for a Q&A, the ...

In a May 2000 essay for Essence magazine, Octavia Butler wrote that “to try to foretell ... Jen, an NYU student and one of the book’s protagonists, simply tries “to make the best of ...

Butler has a two-book series available for purchase in hardcover, paperback and Kindle on Amazon.com: “A Winter Song,” and its sequel, “I Am Eller.” “A Winter Song,” which was released in March of ...

Library staff laid off, let go or placed on leave. Books banned, challenged and purged. Funding cut, slashed or outright ended. Believe it or not, it’s National Library Week. During the seven ...

Even though the unlikely duo will be back on our screens Sundays, the week between each episode will probably still feel as long as Joel and Ellie’s journey to Wyoming. Luckily, we’ve got ...

Culture editor Alison Flood rounds up the book club’s thoughts on our latest read, the weird and wild Dengue Boy by Michel Nieva. Warning: spoilers ahead ...

The dystopian America Octavia Butler imagines in her novels Parable of the Sower and ... Butler reflects on an encounter with a student at one of her book signings. The young man asked her if she ...

Her poetry collection sulphurtongue was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for poetry, the New Brunswick Book Awards, the Atlantic Book Awards and the League of Canadian Poets ...

In Problem Solving, Marshall’s B team took gold, while (CIS) and Sierra Madre Middle’s B teams earned silver, and Marshall’s A and Octavia Butler’s A teams won bronze. 7th grade (11 teams competing) ...