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Culture editor Alison Flood rounds up the book club’s thoughts on our latest read, the weird and wild Dengue Boy by Michel ...
Post-apocalyptic survival, bioweapons and touching bonds at the end of the world. These adrenaline-packed books read like "The Last of Us." ...
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 ...
Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes are set to open 1587 Prime — a Kansas City area steak house. On April 15, People magazine confirmed that the new eatery will open this summer. News that the teammates ...
If you liked following Joel and Ellie’s journey across America in “The Last of Us,” you should check out Butler’s classic dystopian “Parable of the Sower.” Often heralded as prophetic ...
While March is rapidly coming to a close, Lalami has five book recommendations for lovers of “The Dream Hotel” and beyond.
Octavia E. Butler transformed sci-fi with visionary stories on race and identity, yet mainstream fame eluded her. Her legacy ...
The brisk sales of Octavia Butler’s ninth novel, “The Parable of the Sower” is especially notable since Butler, who died in 2006, was born in Pasadena. A middle school there bears her name.