Margaret Atwood’s review of Echo Maker appeared in The New York Review of Books, December 21, 2006. “If Powers were an American writer of the nineteenth century, which writer would he be? He’d probably be the Herman Melville of Moby-Dick. His picture is that big…The Echo Maker is a grand novel—grand in its reach, grand in its themes, grand, Read More
“Ebony and Ivory: A Symphony of Race Relations in the Notes of a Single Biracial Family.” A review of The Time of Our Singing, by Ron Charles, Christian Science Monitor (January 23, 2003): 15. The best black novel to appear in America since “Beloved” has just been written by a white man. (Or at least so, Read More
“Hearing America Singing in the Lives of One Family,” a review of The Time of Our Singing, by Dan Cryer, Newday, January 22, 2003. There has never been any doubt about Richard Powers’ bold ambition. When minimalism was all the rage in the ’80s, this writer dared to think big. In his very first novel, “Three, Read More
Tom Hiney on Richard Powers’ epic and furious novel about our freaked-out future: “Operation Wandering Soul,” in The Independent, February 26, 1994. “In these celebrity-hungry days, a lot of talentless people make it into the household name database. Yet here is Richard Powers; angry, eloquent, streetwise, funny and still generally unknown outside ‘Contemporary American Literature’, Read More