In their new show at Pioneer Works in New York, American Artist reflects on Butler’s most famous series of novels and her ...

The grave of renowned writer Octavia Butler, whose novel Parable of the Sower eerily envisioned fires consuming Los Angeles, ...

Octavia E. Butler and Mike Davis are just some of the Angelenos whose books can help us understand L.A.'s fires, plus Kristin ...

I am writing with an exciting update about this column. Since we launched “Murmurations” in 2021, we have collectively survived, witnessed, and lost loved ones, species, and land to floods, drought, ...

Chris Gunn Octavia E. Butler didn’t like to wait for inspiration ... Twelve published novels and two short story collections resulted from this steadfast dedication. Butler found her stride ...

All that you touch you change.  All that you change changes you.  The only lasting truth is change.  God is change. –Lauren ...

Others cite Octavia Butler, whose “Parable of the Sower ... of three years of incessant firebombing,” assuming that in short order the familiar vegetation of the region would return.