"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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A Silicon Valley billionaire gambles on a radical technology while staring down an incurable disease. A middle-aged couple brood over the future of their French Polynesian atoll. And a 92-year-old ...
Richard Powers discusses his latest novel, “Playground” with host Richard Wolinsky, recorded in the KPFA studios October 31, 2024. Richard Powers won the Pulitzer Prize i 2019 for “The Overstory,” and ...
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