Octavia E. Butler transformed sci-fi with visionary stories on race and identity, yet mainstream fame eluded her. Her legacy ...

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 ...

Andrew Hayes tried to win his fifth game of Jeopardy! after qualifying for the Tournament of Champions the night prior. The ...

In a May 2000 essay for Essence magazine, Octavia Butler wrote that “to try to foretell the future without studying history ...

At Detroit’s Library Street Collective, Kincaid fuses textile, tech, and memory to map the intimate geographies of selfhood.

While March is rapidly coming to a close, Lalami has five book recommendations for lovers of “The Dream Hotel” and beyond.

When not writing for Planet Detroit, Ethan Bakuli is probably getting his hands dirty. Not long ago, that was the furthest ...

Their best case for dance’s utopian elements is the sheer wit and pleasure of the exhibit itself, which sweeps you up in ways that few shows with this many internal citations can. But they say yes in ...

But before he hits the festival circuit, Ackamoor is returning to the Mission for a reprise performance Saturday, April 19 at The Lab, celebrating the release of his new Strut Records double-vinyl ...

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.