In case you haven’t noticed, we’re living in an Octavia Butler novel. The fires the queen of Afrofuturism predicted would ...
The historic fires in Los Angeles meant many students lost homes, schools, or both. Now, as some schools reopen, families are ...
"The future is not pretty and shiny. It has all the same problems that we have now." American Artist told ARTnews.
ALTADENA, Calif. (AP) — Since the Los Angeles fires began last week, “Parable of the Sower” and other Octavia Butler works written decades ago have been cited for anticipating a world ...
In Parable of the Sower, a fire-ravaged California endures a climate change future that is now reality. In the 1993 ...
The devastating fires burning Los Angeles stand as a monumental example of nature’s profoundly destructive potential when ...
Octavia E. Butler and Mike Davis are just some of the Angelenos whose books can help us understand L.A.'s fires, plus Kristin ...
Since the fires began, Butler's works have been cited for anticipating a world - and, particularly, a Los Angeles - wracked ...
As wildfires ravaged parts of Los Angeles, readers said the science fiction writer predicted this in her 1993 work and its ...
But for the past two weeks, the Black-owned bookshop has been packed wall-to-wall with supplies like bottles of water, ...
The Los Angeles fires are a soul-crushing and city-defining disaster. Callous voices have called it a city-destroying event, ...
Apocalypse as a happy ending? Only in Los Angeles. It's an idea that's epicentral to the identity of the place.