"PLAYGROUND" by Richard Powers (W.W. Norton, 400 pages, $30). In his recent novels "The Overstory" and "Bewilderment," Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Powers invites us to set down the blinkered ...

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 ...

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"), ...

Richard Powers, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author known for works like The Overstory, presents his new novel Playground in a literary conversation at The Music Hall. This event, part of the Writers on ...

"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 ...

In some ways, Richard Powers’s new novel Playground is a double bildungsroman, showing us the youth and early adulthood of Todd Kean — white; a native of Evanston, Illinois; and the son of a wealthy ...