1 MARTYR! (Vintage, $18). By Kaveh Akbar. A man tries to understand his tendency toward sadness and self-sabotage by writing ...

Octavia Butler’s works are more than just stories; they are profound explorations of humanity’s deepest fears, desires, and ...

Octavia's Bookshelf, a Black-owned bookstore named after Octavia Butler, has transformed into a donation hub for LA fire ...

In Parable of the Sower, a fire-ravaged California endures a climate change future that is now reality. In the 1993 ...

The music world has stepped up for Los Angeles wildfire relief in a number of ways, and now 100 or so more have chipped in, ...

Award-winning writer and author Jacqueline Woodson on how artists and creators should show up today and any day after.

The devastating fires burning Los Angeles stand as a monumental example of nature’s profoundly destructive potential when ...

For many African Americans who built their lives and businesses in historically Black communities like Altadena, the combined ...

Hollywood pays tribute to the irreplaceable artifacts and cultural touchstones that were destroyed, from the ‘Wizard of Oz’ ...

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 ...