Richard Powers’s readers know they come to his novels at the risk of being haunted by the endless possibilities the stories present. The two men, Rafi and Tod, young students in Chicago, are smitten from the word, well, go: Rafi, the bibliophile who will give up everything for a simpler life, tells Todd, the coding whiz who’ll become an AI …
Book Review "Playground: A Novel" By Richard Powers W.W. Norton, 400 pages, $29.99 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. “Playground,” Powers’ latest novel, occupies a related territory, moving back and forth between environmental and digital concerns, between the troubled ecosystem of the oceans and the …
