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 of a tree is ...

This week we are featuring a conversation from the 2024 Portland Book Festival. The incomparable Richard Powers came to Portland to discuss his new novel, “Playground,” with Literary Arts Executive ...

Over the past 40 years, Richard Powers has written 14 novels, including The Echo Maker, which won the National Book Award. Many of his works have dealt with some of the greatest pursuits of humans in ...

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros. Pictures has closed a film rights deal to New York Times bestseller Playground. Plan B, Timothée ...

UCSB Arts & Lectures presents Richard Powers in Conversation with Pico Iyer, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 23 at UCSB Campbell Hall. “Operating at the intersection of culture, the environment and technology, ...

"Playground" (W.W. Norton), the latest novel by Richard Powers (the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Overstory"), explores artificial intelligence and the race to save the oceans. Its multi-track ...

In Richard Powers' new novel Playground, technology and the environment meet on the island of Makatea in French Polynesia. The book weaves stories together from across decades, but revolves around ...

Like The Overstory — which enveloped us in mysteriously powerful relationships between trees and humans — Playground swirls together an interrelated ecosystem of human characters with the teeming ...

The novelist Richard Powers writes about awe. He won the Pulitzer Prize for "The Overstory," a book that helped people see trees in a different way. Well, his new novel "Playground" takes us ...

“Coming to Santa Barbara from the Smokies is like coming to another planet,” mused Pulitzer Prize-winning environmental novelist Richard Powers in conversation with essayist and novelist Pico Iyer.

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. "Playground" (W.W. Norton), the latest novel by Richard Powers (the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Overstory"), ...