This story is part of Image issue 11, “Renovation,” where we explore the architecture of everyday life — and what it would look like to tear it all down. Read the whole issue here. What face comes to ...

The science fiction writer Octavia Butler wrote about a fictional president who used the phrase "make America great again" in her 1998 book "Parable of the Talents." Rating: True (About this rating?) ...

Visual artist Paul Lewin created this work for Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon's musical setting of Parable of the Sower. Octavia Butler's sci-fi novel Parable of the Sower was published 30 ...

Influential writer Octavia Butler’s literary legend may spread to a new type of fanbase with the introduction of a graphic novel adaptation of “Parable of the Talents,” originally published as a novel ...

Survivor, the third novel in Octavia Butler’s Patternist series, will soon be back on shelves despite Butler’s wishes. Octavia Butler may have been one of her own harshest critics. She held herself to ...

Celebrated science fiction author and Pasadena native Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006) tussled with the same environmental and social concerns as contemporary Angelenos. We know, because the ...

In the 1979 novel "Kindred," author Octavia Butler sent her main character – a Black woman – back to the antebellum south of the 1800s. Dana lands amongst her ancestors, who were owned as slaves. The ...

Actress Mallori Johnson first encountered the work of writer Octavia Butler when she read “Fledgling,” a novel about a young Black vampire. It was the summer before she left home for the Julliard ...

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