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

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

Richard Powers' latest novel brims with love for humanity and the planet. He makes clear that while humans have made this ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Richard Powers has been writing books for nearly 40 years, and from the outset, in his homeland of America, has been ...

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

Richard Powers has long been fascinated by artificial intelligence. As far back as 1995, his novel “Galatea 2.2” reimagined the Pygmalion story through that lens, unfolding in a computer lab ...

Richard Powers’s 14th novel, “Playground,” aims to do for oceans what his Pulitzer Prize-winner, “The Overstory” (2018), did for the woods. The idea that poems pale before the loveliness ...