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Why this Octavia Butler page-turner is the ultimate book club pick
Octavia E. Butler’s “Parable of the Sower” topped our 101 Best Book Club List survey by receiving the most votes. We talked to Nikki High, the founder of Octavia’s Bookshelf bookstore in Pasadena, about Butler’s legacy and why the title resonates with so many. This conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity. The book
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Shameful vandals sink to new low in Palisades Fire zone
Vandals don’t typically model grace or class or consideration, but tagging the properties of fire victims? That’s low even for them. In fact, it’s shameful conduct by lunatics. Derelict graffiti artists have scrawled political slogans on homes, signs, trash cans and trees in the Palisades Fire zone, reporters found this week. LA police and the
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A 1.9-billion-year-old bedrock will soon house the world’s first permanent nuclear waste site
OLKILUOTO, Finland — With the push of a button, the elevator descends hundreds of meters in seconds into the dark depths of Onkalo. “We are now at about minus 430 meters [1,411 feet],” muttered geologist Tuomas Pere as he steered a car through a labyrinth of man-made tunnels. “We are driving through 1.9-billion-year-old bedrock.” After decades of
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CNN shocked as Melania Trump gives public statement on Jeffrey Epstein
First lady Melania Trump delivered her first public statement addressing Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday, departing sharply from the Trump administration’s push to move past the scandal. Breaking her typical silence, Melania defended herself against unverified social media claims linking her to Epstein, stating they had interacted socially at parties. Notably, she called on Congress to
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Book club skeptic? So was Roxane Gay. Here’s what converted her
I was never much of a book club person. While I love reading, one of its greatest pleasures is the way I can immerse myself in the world of a good book, in solitude. Alone. Without any static from the world beyond the story. Book clubs would mean assigned reading, the opinions of others shaping
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Trump mocked for vendetta against NFL that spurned him: ‘Getting back at the club’
President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice was mocked by political analysts and observers on Thursday for its “insane” attempt to get back at a “special club” that rejected the president years ago. The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump’s DOJ has launched an antitrust investigation into the NFL for allegedly harming consumers by allowing games
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Artemis mission captures the spirit of unity America has needed
National confidence, unfortunately, is in short supply these days. In this season of springtime renewal, Americans would do well to look up — literally. Artemis II, NASA’s first meaningful manned space mission in over a half-century, has taken the nation by storm this month. In so doing, it has provided a timely reminder of what
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Journalist warns Trump ‘lit the world on fire’ — and gave other leaders cover for abuses
A journalist warned in a new essay that President Donald Trump just crossed a line that can never be uncrossed. Marisa Kabas, a Brooklyn-based journalist, wrote in a new essayfor her website, The Handbasket, that Trump’s threat to annihilate the Iranian civilization was a moment of “mortal peril” that “lit the world on fire.” She
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Husband of US woman Lynette Hooker who went missing from Bahamas boat falls overboard himself while in police custody
The husband of missing American boater Lynette Hooker took a tumble off a police boat while he was being transported by cops in the Bahamas — and claimed he suffered “knee pain” after he was rescued, his lawyer said. Brian Hooker, 59, fell overboard off the police boat while handcuffed Wednesday, a day after he
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An Army veteran is charged with sharing classified details of an elite commando unit
RALEIGH, N.C. — An Army veteran has been charged with sharing classified information about an elite commando unit with a journalist, which one official said put the country, members of the U.S. military and the nation’s allies at risk. Courtney Williams, 40, of Wagram, N.C., is accused of violating federal law, as well as multiple nondisclosure agreements,