There are only a few books that I can say really changed how I thought about an issue and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Powers’ 2018 book The Overstory – about trees and their unique ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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.

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 ...

It didn’t take a supercomputer to figure out we’d get another remarkable novel about artificial intelligence from Richard Powers. In 1995, Powers published “Galatea 2.2,” his Pygmalion tale about ...

Richard Powers has long been fascinated by artificial intelligence. As far back as 1995, his novel “Galatea 2.2” reimagined the Pygmalion story through that lens, unfolding in a computer lab at the ...