Octavia E. Butler Credit: Photo-Illustration: Mark Harris Authors Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due are leaning into Butler’s Afrofuturistic vision to save hearts “in the midst of stress.” ...

In 1992, while Octavia E. Butler was writing her novel Parable of the Sower, Los Angeles was hitting bottom. The acquittal of ...

Rebecca Castillo is a video creator and special projects lead for Los Angeles Times’ High School Insider and other Public Affairs programs. A Southern California native, she is an alumna of Swarthmore ...

Over 30 years ago, Octavia ... and co-editor of Butler’s work for the Library of America, in an interview with the Associated Press in 2020. “It’s hard not to read the books and think ...

But before we totally dismiss the Fonz, we must admit that his view of the situation is actually not far from the one we find in the first book of Octavia Butler's Parable series, Parable of the ...

Bookshop, a site that lets independent, bricks-and-mortar bookshops sell their books online, is launching an app that will allow the sales of e-books, too. By Alexandra Alter When Andy Hunter ...

Amazon accounts for more than 80% of all online book sales, according to market research firm IBISWorld. Not to mention it owns Kindle, a wildly popular format for e-reading. Bookshop.org is ready ...

Julianne Moore in ‘Great Shock’ After Donald Trump Bans Her Children’s Book ‘Freckleface Strawberry’ From Schools: ‘I Can’t Help But Wonder What Is So Controversial’ Prime Video ...

Bookshop.org founder and CEO Andy Hunter joked that the e-books question has been the bane of his business’ social media manager’s existence for a while now. “Every day she has people ask ...

Do you want to read more books? Having an amazing e-reader is a good start, but getting great books to read isn’t always an easy (or affordable) task. In many cases, it can be cheaper to ...

By Emily Eakin Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes. A new book by the journalist Katherine Stewart finds a far-right ...