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Richard Powers

The latest news and reviews of books by Richard Powers.

July 2024

  • Lisa Allardice

    This Booker longlist might just be the most enjoyable of recent years

    Lisa Allardice
  • Booker’s dozen … the 2024 prize longlisted titles.

    Three British novelists make Booker 2024 longlist among ‘cohort of global voices’

November 2022

  • Alexander von Humboldt by Friedrich Georg Weitsch, c1806.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about unlikely revolutionaries

    Novels by Richard Powers and Colson Whitehead, and polemics by Rachel Carson and Mary Wollstonecraft show how ideas and words can change the world

October 2021

  • Anuk Arudpragasam, Patricia Lockwood, Nadifa Mohamed; bottom from left: Maggie Shipstead, Damon Galgut, Richard Power

    A pioneering pilot, a vast wilderness, a drunken afternoon... Booker shortlisted authors reveal their inspirations

    Patricia Lockwood, Anuk Arudpragasam, Richard Powers and more on how they made the 2021 shortlist

September 2021

  • South African author Damon Galgut’s low-key satire The Promise has been announced as one of the six-strong shortlist

    Analysis: the 2021 Booker shortlist tunes in to the worries of our age

    Alex Clark weighs up the urgent concerns of the six novels in the running for Britain’s most prestigious fiction award
  • top: Anuk Arudpragasam , Patricia Lockwood, Nadifa Mohamed bottom: Maggie Shipstead, Damon Galgut, Richard Powers

    Nadifa Mohamed is sole British writer to make Booker prize shortlist

    The author of The Fortune Men will now compete with five other novelists from South Africa, Sri Lanka and the US for the 2021 award
  • Cheltenham Literature Festival<br>CHELTENHAM, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 13: Richard Powers, Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2018 shortlisted author of 'The Overstory', at the Cheltenham Literature Festival on October 13, 2018 in Cheltenham, England. (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)

    Book of the day
    Bewilderment by Richard Powers review – stars in their eyes

    An astrobiologist soothes his troubled son with inner voyages to fantastical worlds in a tender sci-fi novel-cum-family romance

July 2021

  • Booker prize longlistees (from left clockwise: Kazuo Ishiguro, Rachel Cusk, Richard Powers, Patricia Lockwood, Sunjeev Sahota and Nadifa Mohamed.

    Booker prize reveals globe-spanning longlist of ‘engrossing stories’

    Kazuo Ishiguro makes cut alongside Rachel Cusk and Richard Powers, and novels from Sri Lanka and South Africa compete with choices from the US and UK

June 2021

  • Review magazine cover 26th June 2021

    Stories to save the world: the new wave of climate fiction

    Now more than ever, novelists are facing up to the unthinkable: the climate crisis. Claire Armitstead talks to Margaret Atwood, Amitav Ghosh and more about the new cli-fi

December 2019

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    Fights, food and fall outs: why Christmas is a gift to novelists

    From Jane Austen’s Emma to Richard Powers in The Overstory, novelists have used the festive season to gather families together ... and let the drama unfold

May 2019

  • Richard Powers

    Books interview
    Richard Powers: ‘I’ve read more than 120 books about trees’

    The Pulitzer-winning author of eco-novel The Overstory on Extinction Rebellion, his many alter egos and the brilliance of Robert Macfarlane

December 2018

  • Sequoia Forest in California.

    Reading group
    How could The Overstory be considered a book of the year?

    Richard Powers’ novel has its heart in a fine place, but it works by browbeating the reader with lectures and daft melodrama
  • Richard Powers in Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee.

    Reading group
    The Overstory's lofty view rises above mere polemic

    Richard Powers’s novel can be preachy, but its authentic passion for imperilled trees carries the reader through
  • Richard Powers in Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee.

    Reading group
    The Overstory by Richard Powers is our reading group book for December

    This huge novel might be more of a hike in the woods than a walk in the park – but a reader has promised that it ‘will change the way you see the world’

October 2018

  • The Booker shortlisted authors: Clockwise from top left: Rachel Kushner, Esi Edugyan, Robin Robertson, Daisy Johnson, Richard Powers and Anna Burns.

    How I write: Man Booker shortlist authors reveal their inspirations

  • The 2004 Man Booker prize ceremony, the year the award was won by Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty.

    Has the Booker prize lost its mojo?

September 2018

  • Man Booker prize 2018 shortlist.

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Sarah Waters, John Boyne and the 2018 Man Booker prize shortlist – books podcast

  • Booker shortlist 2018 authors composite: Clockwise from top left: Rachel Kushner.Esi Edugyan, Robin Robertson,Daisy Johnson, Richard S Powers and Anna Burns

    Man Booker 2018: Daisy Johnson becomes youngest ever author shortlisted for prize

July 2018

  • Books composite 30th July

    Not the Booker prize
    Not the Booker longlist: vote now to decide the 2018 shortlist

  • Richard Powers in Great Smokeys National Park in Tennessee.

    Books that made me
    Richard Powers: ‘I love sci-fi. The more 10-foot reptilians, the better’

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