🏛️ Architecture & Design Jun 29, 2026 · Rachel Paese

Your summer reading list

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During a recent reporting trip touring Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley,” I listened to Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Talents, published in 1999. It’s the second installment in a prescient trilogy, set in an America barely hanging on in 2032: environmental degradation, economic chaos, widespread violence, a wave of detentions, and a zealous tyrant running for President.



It turned out to be… an interesting choice.



“We caused the problems: then we sat and watched as they grew into crise

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