Richard Powers

1 month ago | sinicapodcast.com | Joseph Henrich |Richard Powers |Kaiser Kuo

This week on the Sinica Podcast, I chat with Jeremy Garlick, Director of the Jan Masaryk Centre for International Studies, Prague University, and a scholar of China’s international relations. Jeremy is the author of the book Advantage China: Agent of Change in an Era of Global Disruption, but the book we're talking about this week is his new Cambridge Element titled Evolution in International Relations.

Jan 15, 2025 | wlrn.org | Dhanika Pineda |Sarah Manguso |Louise Erdrich |Richard Powers

Sometimes you finish a book and just have to talk about it with someone else. If your book club is looking for its next conversation-sparking title we have a dozen for you! These fiction and nonfiction titles were all recommended by NPR staff and critics for the latest installment of Books We Love, our annual year-end books guide. Books We Love allows you to browse and filter them by genre to find the title that's perfect for you and your reading buddies.

Jan 15, 2025 | boisestatepublicradio.org | Dhanika Pineda |Sarah Manguso |Louise Erdrich |Richard Powers

Sometimes you finish a book and just have to talk about it with someone else. If your book club is looking for its next conversation-sparking title we have a dozen for you! These fiction and nonfiction titles were all recommended by NPR staff and critics for the latest installment of Books We Love, our annual year-end books guide. Books We Love allows you to browse and filter them by genre to find the title that's perfect for you and your reading buddies.

Oct 18, 2024 | lesen.de | Elizabeth Strout |Philippe Besson |Sally Rooney |Richard Powers

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING, BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR'Stunning, deeply felt and profoundly intelligent' GuardianIt's autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer, Lucy Barton, who lives nearby in a house next to the sea.

Oct 13, 2024 | lesen.de | Ned Beauman |Philippe Besson |Sally Rooney |Richard Powers

The dazzling new novel by the Man Booker-longlisted, Granta Best of Young British novelist, Ned Beauman - a speculative literary thriller for the age of Extinction Rebellion that is as laugh-out-loud funny as it is serious in its message. The near future. With tens of thousands of species dying out every year, our last hope is the biobanks, impregnable vaults where their remnants can be preserved forever. Until one day an audacious cyberattack obliterates every single one.