Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What face comes to mind when people think of the term "American artist"? Whose stories? The 32-year-old visual artist who took the ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nikki High is taking a big leap with Octavia's Bookshelf in Pasadena. She's had her moments of doubt, but concluded, "We have to ...

Science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler said the novels in her “Parable” series were meant to be cautionary. Her 1993 “Parable of the Sower” follows Lauren Oya Olamina, a teenager born with ...

“I am too alone, too slow, too lazy, too undisciplined, too little in my big body. I talk too much — and too little — saying too often the wrong thing.” Octavia Butler wrote these words in her ...

The author’s career is honored by a newly commissioned work by digital artist Nettrice Gaskins Alice George | Museums Correspondent Butler is not just a talented writer, says curator Monica Montgomery ...

The visionary Black science-fiction writer Octavia Butler died 15 years ago on February 24, 2006, but her influence and readership has only continued to grow since then. In September, Butler’s novel ...

Author Octavia E. Butler has challenged the boundaries of space and time. Now her work is influencing the stage. Butler’s 1993 novel, “Parable of the Sower,” is heading to Lincoln Center in the form ...

To mark the 250th anniversary of the United States, we’re cataloging 25 objects that define the country’s history. Every storyteller has a tool: a notebook, a camera, a microphone. For legendary ...

When Octavia Butler published 1993’s Parable of the Sower — a sci-fi novel about California burning in 2024, following a presidential election of a candidate whose slogan is “Make America Great Again” ...

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 ...

Kindred, the time-travel drama premiering on Hulu this week, marks the first time Octavia Butler’s seminal science fiction novel has been brought to screen — but it’s not the first attempt. Nearly 40 ...