A former protégé of John Cage who was once married to Yoko Ono, he was part of a lively experimental music scene in New York and became a leading modern composer in Japan. By Neil Genzlinger Toshi ...
Octavia E. Butler’s modern-classic science-fiction novel Parable of the Sower focuses on a hyper-empathetic young woman who becomes a messianic figure in a society laid low by corporate greed, ...