Playground by Richard Powers

Norton Review by David Starkey In some ways, Richard Powers’ new novel Playground is a double bildungsroman, showing us the youth and early adulthood of Todd Kean—white, a native of…

The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers

Norton Review by Brian Tanguay It has been some time since I finished a novel and immediately felt compelled to turn back to the first page and start over. The…

Bewilderment by Richard Powers

Review by David Starkey Richard Powers’ new novel, Bewilderment, is—despite its portrayal of a mother and son who are capable of ecstatic connection with the natural world—one of the most…