From colonialism to AI, this Booker-longlisted novel urges us to wake up to how we treat wild creatures and places ...

Richard Powers has long been fascinated by artificial intelligence. As far back as 1995, his novel “Galatea 2.2” reimagined ...

The author of 'The Overstory' will talk about his latest book, 'Playground,' in Portsmouth.

"If you want to make something smarter, teach it to play," remarks a trailblazing oceanographer in Richard Powers' Playground. Evelyne Beaulieu is one of several brilliant characters in the novel who ...

Powers spools out Todd’s backstory through italicized first-person sections, the character in conversation with an offstage ...

Playground, the American’s 14th novel, travels across time and space, covering AI, human drama and scuba diving in typically ...

One of the more reliable ways to hype a forthcoming novel by someone born and raised in the US is to suggest that, in its ...

In Richard Powers’s novel, a programmer looks for relief from mental distress via a life aquatic.

This vote provides Powers with a narrative opportunity to pose questions about what humankind faces next as a result of the ...

The power and importance of play is one of the ideas explored in Pulitzer Prize–winning author Richard Powers' new novel, Playground.

September 24-30, 2024. I don’t know where you are reading this, but where I’m writing it the temperature today was 93 degrees ...

In Richard Powers’s novel, a programmer looks for relief from mental distress via a life aquatic.