The incredible worlds of graphic novels, orchestral music and electronic soundscapes will come together in a captivating, ...

Octavia Butler is undoubtedly one of the greatest science fiction authors of all time, and it should come as no surprise that ...

Unveiled last Friday at Octavia's Bookshelf in Pasadena, with illustrator John Jennings in attendance for a Q&A, the ...

Post-apocalyptic survival, bioweapons and touching bonds at the end of the world. These adrenaline-packed books read like "The Last of Us." ...

Culture editor Alison Flood rounds up the book club’s thoughts on our latest read, the weird and wild Dengue Boy by Michel Nieva. Warning: spoilers ahead ...

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 ...

So to them Jesus addressed this parable. “A man had two sons, and the younger son said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of your estate that should come to me.’ So the father divided the ...

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 ...

At that time: Jesus told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: 'Two men went up into the Temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the ...

Like recent movies “A Different Man” and “The Substance,” Williams’ production ingeniously ushers Wilde’s parable into the modern age. As Dorian’s life becomes an incessant bacchanal ...