![CLOSE READ: Dawn by Octavia E. Butler](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6373d73e4e3de2407afbb871/1674490639175-PE6H2A9I1I4MVK4DOYJI/Screenshot+2023-01-23+at+16.16.56.png)
CLOSE READ: Dawn by Octavia E. Butler
Exploring Human Nature on the Brink of Extinction in Octavia E. Butler’s 1987 “Dawn”
![Top Reads of the 2020s (Thus far)](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6373d73e4e3de2407afbb871/1674060098946-KPWSIZA6OSJHJ5CDDC7Z/WhatsApp+Image+2023-01-18+at+15.05.19.jpeg)
Top Reads of the 2020s (Thus far)
![An Analysis of Rebecca from Rebecca: Sexy, Promiscuous, and Decidedly Evil](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6373d73e4e3de2407afbb871/1672967342104-HDHESFI32P4NK2I83ZIQ/IMG_2436.jpeg)
An Analysis of Rebecca from Rebecca: Sexy, Promiscuous, and Decidedly Evil
The enduring Legacy of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca
![Herland: The first gender plague novel?](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6373d73e4e3de2407afbb871/1672962490973-LK5BS7WZ3EPE75MIYZVK/1200px-Camille_Corot_-_A_Morning._The_Dance_of_the_Nymphs_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg)
Herland: The first gender plague novel?
Examining the troubling implications of this subgenre of speculative dystopian fiction in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s novel, Herland.