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Richard Powers: Playground (2024, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.) 4 stars

Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing …

disappointment

2 stars

While full of a sense of wonder (of other-than-human and human capacities) and social inequality (wealth and the access and control that exerts over the world and our relationships), this turned out to be a story I deeply do not care about, narratively driven by what I'll call in mild spoiler a Thiel-inflected AI.