Critic Bethanne Patrick recommends 10 promising titles, fiction and nonfiction, to consider for your April reading list.

Chris Gunn Octavia E. Butler didn’t like to wait ... Getty Images Throughout her years of obscurity, Butler rose daily to write before menial jobs as a potato chip inspector, dishwasher and ...

China Reevers of Country Bookshelf in Bozeman, Mont., recommends “Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for ...

5 DEMON COPPERHEAD (Harper Perennial, $21.99). By Barbara Kingsolver. In this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, a boy born in a trailer in Appalachia faces the challenges of childhood poverty with ...

Her writing informed his feminism, storytelling, and by his admission, the person he is. Other writers influenced by Ursula Le Guin, see: China Miéville, Octavia Butler, Salman Rushdie ...

Three months in, and what we lost in the fire, what we saved from the fire and what comes from the fire runs across so many people’s minds every day. Everyone’s evacuation story is still vivid in ...

Our world has too much noise and too little context. Vox helps you understand what matters. We don’t drown you in panic-inducing headlines, and we’re not obsessed with being the first to break ...

With five minutes to play in the fourth quarter and the Lakers surging behind two straight 3-pointers from LeBron James and Austin Reaves, Jimmy Butler drove the lane and had a clear opportunity ...

On Thursday night against the Los Angeles Lakers, Golden State Warriors forward Jimmy Butler suffered a brief scare as he exited the game with a forearm injury. The Warriors star ultimately ...

Alex Santos and Julian Butler combined for a no-hitter as Kearny defeated Lincoln, 12-0, in five innings, in Kearny. Butler struck out five and walked one over the first two innings, before giving ...