- Freeman, John.
[Review of Plowing the
Dark] Barnes and Noble.com. (2000).
- Anonymous. [Review of Plowing the
Dark] Kirkus Review. 68.6 (March 15, 2000): 325-326.
Starred review.
- Dodd, David. [Review of Plowing the
Dark] Library Journal. 125.6 (April 1, 2000): 132.
- Anonymous. [Review of Plowing the
Dark] Publishers Weekly. 247.16 (April 1, 2000): 48.
Starred review.
- Pearl, Nancy. [Review of Plowing the
Dark] Booklist. 96.17 (May 1, 2000): 1653.
- LeClair, Tom.
"Cave Paintings."
Book: The Magazine for the Reading Life. (May 2000).
- Rosenthal, Pam.
[Review of Plowing the
Dark] Salon.com. (May 25, 2000).
- Dickinson, Charles. "Richard Powers'
New Book Explores the Rooms of Reality." Chicago Tribune.
(May 28, 2000)
- Passaro, Vince. "Into the Web."
Elle. 178 (June 2000): 96.
- Anonymous, "Ten Books to Keep You
Talking All Month Long." Talk (June/July 2000). Short endorsement
of Plowing the Dark in a fiction roundup.
- Shulevitz, Judith.
"The Strange Powers
of Richard Powers." Slate. (June 2, 2000).
- Moore, Steven.
"Virtual Artistry."
Washington Post Book World. (June 4, 2000): 6.
- Rosenthal, Pam. "Virtual Dreams:
Powers Explores Old Cyber-Reality." Chicago Sun-Times (June 4,
2000): 15.
- Caldwell, Gail. "Minds Over Matter:
Richard Powers Cross-Cuts Two Contrasting Tales: Of Limitless
Cybersmiths, and a Prisoner Retreating Inward." Boston Globe.
(June 11, 2000). Includes
photo by Madeleine Marchaterre. Also published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
(July 11 2000): 30, as "Brilliant Author's 'Dark' Is Masterpiece of his
Singular Synergy of Intellect and Soul." (July 14 2000): 30. Also
appears as "'Plowing the Dark': Powers' Peak?" in Denver Rocky
Mountain News (July 23, 2000): 2E.
- Berger, Kevin.
"Imagination Run Wild:
Virtual Reality Meets Geopolitics in Richard Powers' Ambitious Novel
About the Future of Creativity." San Francisco Chronicle Book
Review. (June 11-17, 2000): 1, 6.
- Asirvatham, Sandy. "Plowing the Dark."
Time Out New York (June 15-22, 2000).
- Doenges, Judy. "Virtual Reality, Real
Brilliance In 'Plowing the Dark': Richard Powers again explores a
shifting technological terrain." Seattle Times. (June 18
2000): M10.
- Zalewski, Daniel.
"Actual Reality."
The New York Times Book Review. (June 18, 2000): 12. Contains a link to the
first chapter of the book.
- Kakutani, Michiko.
"Imaginary Lives,
Built in Empty Rooms." The New York Times. (June
20, 2000): B8.
- Mobilio, Albert.
"Mind Games."
Village Voice. 45.24 (June 20 2000): 79.
Photo
by Sylvia Plachy.
- Ulin, David L. "Van Gogh's Virtual
Reality." Ruminator Review (Summer, 2000): 31.
- Sorrentino, Christopher. "Real Gone."
Artforum. 7.2 (Summer 2000): 28. Plowing the Dark is
reviewed in the "Bookforum" supplement to Artforum.
- Kellman, Steven G. "Plowing Fertile
Ground of Solitude." Atlanta Journal-Constitution (June 25,
2000): L4.
- Leibs, Scott. "Reality Bites: It's a
Long Haul, But It's Ultimately Worth It To Plow Through 'Plowing the
Dark'." San Diego Union. (June 25 2000): Books 1. Includes
caricature by David Mollering.
- Kirsch, Adam. "Scientific Fiction."
Atlantic Monthly. 286.1 (July 2000): 95-97. Review of
Plowing the Dark.
- Birkerts, Sven. "Mystical Powers: In
His New Novel, Richard Powers Probes the Outer Limits." Esquire.
134.1 (July 2000): 46, 49. See also Birkerts's interview with Powers on
the web at
esquiremag.com/powers.
- Weiners, Brad.
"Powers's Virtual
Reality Trip: It's a Beautiful Nightmare." eCompany.
(July 2000).
- Levine, Mark. "Brains on Board."
Men's Journal (July, 2000): 29. Review of Plowing the Dark
along with Michael Paternity's Driving Mr. Albert.
- Savage, John.
[Review of Plowing the
Dark]. The Savage Beast. (July 2 2000).
- Last, Jonathan V. "Merged Tales Link
Future Technology With Past Events to Probe Loneliness." Washington
Times (July 2, 2000): B6.
- "Briefly Noted." New Yorker.
76.17 (July 3 2000): 83.
- Booth, Michael.
"Escape Theme Traps
Readers in Confusion." Denver Post. (July 9 2000).
- Newlove, Donald. "Virtual Reality vs.
Human Imagination." Philadelphia Inquirer (July 9, 2000).
- Moore, Greg. "Whole New Worlds."
Sunday Gazette-Mail (Toronto). (July 9, 2000).
- Harris, Michael. "How Imagination
Shapes Two Destinies." Los Angeles Times. (July 11 2000):
3. Includes photo.
- Rugoff, Ralph. "Virtual Fiction."
LA Weekly (July 14-20, 2000).
- Nissley, Tom. "The Sentimental
Scientist: Richard Powers's Heart of Darkness." The Stranger
(Seattle, WA). (July 20, 2000): 43.
- Mesler, Corey. "Virtual Realities and
Real World Combine in Brilliant Invention." Memphis Commercial Appeal
(July 23, 2000).
- Yaffe, David. "Mysterious Powers."
New York. 33.28 (July 24, 2000): 87.
- Oppenheimer, Mark. "Art as Salve For
Painful Moments in Life." Hartford Courant (July 30, 2000): G4.
- Harris, Charles B. [Review of Plowing the Dark]
Review of Contemporary Fiction. 20.2 (Summer 2000): 165.
- James, Cary. "Virtually Real: Two
Parallel Stories Illustrate the Power of Our Imaginations."
Pacific Sun. 38.32 (August 2-8 2000): 24.
- Beaven, Craig. [Review of Plowing
the Dark]. ACE Weekly (August 3, 2000).
- Cobb, William J. "The Light of the
Cave, The Dark of the Monitor Screen." Houston Chronicle (August
3, 2000).
- Taylor, Ara. "Novelist Creates a
Stunning Reality." Belingham Herald (August 6, 2000).
- Sutherland, John. "Paper or Plastic?"
London Review of Books (August 10, 2000): 20-21. Double review of
Gain and Plowing the Dark.
- Sayers, Valerie. "A Virtual
Masterpiece." Commonweal. 127.15 (September 8 2000): 35-36.
- Lamb, S.A. "The Powers that Will Be:
Richard Powers' New Novel Weighs the Meaning of High Tech."
Express Books (a monthly literary supplement to the East
Bay Express. (September 29 2000): 1, 6-7.
- Latour, Bruno, "Textual Reality: Bruno
Latour Dons the VR Goggles of the Mind's Eye." Artbyte (October,
2000): 78-79.
- Bissell, Tom.
"Plowing the
Dark." The Boston Review. 25.5 (October/November 2000):
32-33. Review begins: "Richard Powers is America's greatest living
novelist."
- Herman, Luc. "Recensie: Richard
Powers: Plowing the dark." De Standaard. (October 19,
2000).
- Houser, Gordon. "Plowing the Dark."
The Christian Century. 117.35 (December 13 2000): 1311.
- Lernout, Geert. "Er zijn twee winnaars
in u: voortreffelijke dubbelromans van Mark Z. Danielewski en Richard
Powers." De Morgen. 53 (2000): 10-11. Review of Plowing the
Dark, combined with a review of House of Leaves, by Mark Danielewski.
Flemish.
- Strecker, Trey. "What the Mind Makes."
American Book Review (V. 22, no. 1).
- Shuman, R. Baird. "[Review of PTD]" Magill's Literary Annual, Pasadena, CA: Salem Press (2001).
pp. 711-715.
- Leonard, John.
"Mind Painting." The New York Review of Books. 48.1
(January 11 2001): 42-48. Ostensibly a review of Plowing the Dark, this
is a full-blown evaluative appreciation of Powers's work to date. Sample
quote: "Everybody else just talks about alienation, estrangement, and
the unbearable lightness of being. [Powers] actually does something
about them. ... He will use everything we know from our higher brain
functions about mind and body and art and longing, to find patterns and
to close distances."
- Quinn, Paul. "Engineers of Artifice."
TLS. 5115 (April 13 2001): 24.
- Egerton, Frank. "The Powers That Be."
Financial Times (London). (April 21, 2001): IV.
- Royle, Nicholas.
"Virtual
Reality of a Computer Artist and a Captive." The Independent.
(May 7, 2001).
- Leith, Sam.
"A Room of Their Own." Daily Telegraph (UK). (May 12, 2001).
- Ravitch, Michael. "Just the Facts."
The New Republic. 224.4504 (May 14 2001): 45.
- Ali, Omer. "Plowing the Dark." Time
Out (London). (May 20, 2001): 68.
- Hantke, Steffen.
"Talking Back
to the Owners of the World." electronic book review 12 (Fall,
2001). A review of Plowing the Dark along with Tom LeClair's
Well-Founded Fear.
- Anonymous. [Review of Plowing the
Dark]. Das Buch (Spring, 2002).
- Fronz, Hans-Dieter. "Endsieg der
Phantasie." Badische Zeitung (March 16, 2002).
- Krekeler, Elmar. "Die Zauberhöhle."
Die Welt (March 16, 2002). Plowing the Dark selected as book
of the week by Die Welt.
- Haase, Wolf. "Gedankenreisen Durch
Scheinwelten." Sachsische Zeitung (March 20, 2002).
- Knipphals, Dirk.
"Die
Gedanken Umarmen." Die Tagesspiegel (March 21, 2002).
- Laux, Thomas. "Mimikry des Lebens."
Biograph Impressum (April, 2002).
- Kämmerlings, Richard. "Digital ist
Kesser." Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (April 13, 2002): 54.
- Keller, Ursula. "Mein Lieblingsbuch."
Szene (May, 2002).
- Hansen, Per. "Schattenflucht."
Bremer (May, 2002).
- Lötscher, Christine. "Die Erziehung
Des Denkens." Tagesanzeiger Zürich (May 4, 2002).
- Pralle, Uwe.
"Blindenhunde des Todes: Richard Powers entzaubert die digitale
Wunderwelt." Neue Zürcher Zeitung (May 23 2002). Review
of Schattenflucht (German translation of Plowing the Dark).
- Rodenbäck, Sabine. "Lesung Mit Richard
Powers." Hamburger Sommer (June, 2002).
- Hummel, Volker. "Apolitischer Raum."
Die Tageszeitung (June 13, 2002).
- Ascher, Rupert. "Surfen Nach Byzanz."
Die Presse (Vienna). (June 15, 2002).
- Freund, Wieland. "Goldkäfervariationen."
Die Welt (June 18, 2002): 25. Review feature calls Powers "the
Novalis of the 21st Century."
- Stannies, Jan Aslak. "Wirklich Oder
Virtuell?" Hamburger Abendblatt (June 18, 2002).
- Narbutovic, Katharina. "Babylon
Bites." Der Tagesspiegel (June 21, 2002): 26.
- Herrchen, Martin. "Science Friction."
Journal Frankfurt. (June 21-July 4, 2002).
- Isfort, Volker. "Ein Höhlengleichnis."
Abendzeitung (Munich). (June 25, 2002).
- Reinfandt, Christoph. "Literatur
im digitalen Zeitalter: Zur Gegenwartsdiagnose in Richard Powers' Roman
Plowing the Dark." In: Literatur in Wissenschaft und
Unterricht 25,4 (2002): 359-379.
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