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Octavia Butler's alternate realities and 'speculative fiction' reveal striking, and often devastating parallels to the world we live in today. She was a deep ob…
Octavia Butler's alternate realities and 'speculative fiction' reveal striking, and often devastating parallels to the world we live in today. She was a deep ob…
Octavia Butler gave us a new kind of science fiction: not only as one of the first writers to use history to talk about the future, and not only as one of the f…
The opening round of the 2026 Goodreads Choice Awards has begun! Cast your vote for your favorite reads of the year.
It's a day of mixed reactions, from The Booker annoucements to PW's industry survey.
Yuval Harari of Hebrew University and author of Sapiens talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the history of humanity. Topics discussed include the move f…
An excerpt from ‘Hocus Pocus’, by Brinda Charry.
An excerpt from ‘Our Kind of Games’.
An excerpt from ‘Cast Out: Stories’, by Sucharita Dutta-Asane.
