showcasing Butler’s talent for blending intricate character development with profound philosophical questions. Finish story here; 8 Essential Octavia Butler Books Everyone Should Read.

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Books can turn up in your life when you need them. What does the resurgent popularity of a dystopian novel say about modern ...

Artist’s exhibition reads in part as a much-needed love letter to Butler. Spread across the spacious red brick building are architectural, archival, and screen-based installations that address ...

Octavia E. Butler with her last book, Fledgling. The writer died in 2006, before many of her prescient predictions were to come true. It is not just the accuracy of Butler’s books that continues ...

Octavia E. Butler: I do, but I tend to get angry. Not when I disagree with someone's interpretation, but when people clearly have not read the whole book. I'm not too upset when they are factually ...

Octavia Butler, who died in 2006, once said of "The Parable of the Sower," her celebrated 1993 novel about a woman who feels others' pain, "I began writing the book with the thought that maybe ...