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

“Years after reading this one, I’m still amazed that a novel about elevator inspectors could be so riveting, so fun, and ultimately so profound.” “Parable of the Sower” follows the harrowing story of ...

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 ...

But what does it mean to persist? Lauren establishes a religion called Earthseed that she believes can teach humanity how to ...

It is a growth parable. Parable Meaning Significance for today A man went out to sow grain. The man represents God and the seed is His message. Just as a planted seed starts to grow, the word of ...

In her 1993 novel, Parable of the Sower, she imagined a Los Angeles encircled by fires. The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery recently acquired this vibrant quilted portrait of Octavia Butler by ...