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The parable of the Sower a good test for spiritual vital signs
Worcester Telegram & Gazette via Yahoo News· 6 months agoIn Matthew 13, a chapter full of parables, Jesus tells the parable of the Sower of the seed. It is a...
Opera based on Octavia Butler novel makes New York City premiere
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 10 months agoAn opera based on Butler’s 1993 novel, “Parable of the Sower,” had been workshopped for years and...
One of Octavia Butler's Best-Known Works is Now an Opera
The Root via Yahoo News· 10 months agoIn 1993, Octavia E. Butler’s “Parable of the Sower,” a critically acclaimed novel centered around a...
An opera based on an Octavia Butler novel has been decades in the making
NBC News via Yahoo News· 10 months agoAuthor Octavia E. Butler has challenged the boundaries of space and time. Now her work is...
An Antidote to a Season of Political Despair
Harper's Bazaar via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA group of strangers came together to form a choir for the opera adaptation of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower—and found more than they expected.
What Octavia E. Butler understood above all: vulnerability
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoEdan Lepucki, author of the dystopian novel 'California,' explains the power of 'Parable of the...
22 Afrofuturist books that reimagine worlds from a Black perspective
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 1 year agoOctavia E. Butler and N.K. Jemisin are among the foremost science fiction authors writing...
Paths converge to bring 'Parable of the Sower' opera to Maine
Portland Press Herald, Maine via Yahoo News· 1 year agoApr. 14—Musician Toshi Reagon sat on the stage at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Brunswick on Tuesday evening and prepared to hit the play button on her laptop. "This is like the big, ...
Six Great Books Besides "Kindred" By Octavia Butler
BuzzFeed News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMaddie Abuyuan / BuzzFeed News; Grand Central Publishing; Seven Stories Press BuzzFeed may collect a share of sales or other compensation from the links...
What is Afrofuturism and why should you be reading it? We explain.
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIt has been called a movement, a genre, a cultural aesthetic. Afrofuturism is all of those, but it's...
