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 ...

Richard Powers discusses his latest novel, "Playground," which focuses on Big Tech and AI and has just come out in trade ...

The novelist Richard Powers and I were sitting on the banks of a river in the Great Smoky Mountains, and I could scarcely hear him above the water crashing against the rocks. The sound was both ...

"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 ...

"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 ...

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, ...

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 ...