On this episode of, “Literary Arts: The Archive Project,” we feature the novelist, Richard Powers. Powers is a writer whose work is difficult to define. It is literary fiction based in a kind of ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning Richard Powers discusses his new novel, “Bewilderment,” which has been longlisted for the Booker Prize and National Book Award. It is a love story ...

Andrew Leonard has a fascinating, if discursive, profile in Salon of the novelist Richard Powers. In it, Powers registers a note of discontent with the proliferation of both pop-musical content—the ...

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 2019 Pulitzer Prizes were announced in New York on Monday afternoon, with novelist Richard Powers taking the fiction award for “The Overstory,” his ecological novel warning of an upcoming ...

“The Overstory” by Richard Powers is a saga of many generations and characters, a complex novel with a simple theme: We must save the trees or die. (The title is a term for the upper level of giant ...

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 ...