In “Parable of the Sower,” Octavia E. Butler writes about a brutal, mid-2020s Southern California ravaged by wildfire, earthquakes and an addictive pharmaceutical that fuels a destructive drug ...

The dystopian America Octavia Butler imagines in her novels Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, both written in the 1990s, is eerily familiar—a failing education system, the dissolving of ...

Leo referred to Christ’s Parable of ... Van Gogh painted “Sower at Sunset” in 1888, when he was living in Arles in southern France. At the time, he was creating art alongside his friend ...

Van Gogh’s painting was inspired by French artist Jean-Francois Millet’s 1860 painting. But he transformed Millet’s composition into an image of hope.

Advertisement Article continues below this ad Leo referred to Christ’s Parable ... “Sower at Sunset” in 1888, when he was living in Arles in southern France. At the time, he was creating art ...

Other artists, including the Norwegian Emanuel Vigeland, explicitly depicted the Parable of the Sower. Vigeland’s series of stained-glass windows in an Oslo church explains each passage’s meaning.