John Powers
John Powers is the pop culture and critic-at-large on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross. He previously served for six years as the film critic.
Powers spent the last 25 years as a critic and columnist, first for LA Weekly, then Vogue. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including Harper's BAZAAR, The Nation, Gourmet, The Washington Post, and The New York Times.
A former professor at Georgetown University, Powers is the author of Sore Winners, a study of American culture during President George W. Bush's administration. His latest book, WKW: The Cinema of Wong Kar Wai (co-written with Wong Kar Wai), is an April 2016 release by Rizzoli.
He lives in Pasadena, California, with his wife, filmmaker Sandi Tan.
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- Travel to Italy and Algeria in these two brilliant, translated mysteries
- 'Widow's Bay' is cursed -- but manages to be both funny and frightening
- 'The Wizard of the Kremlin' captures the rise of Putin — and 'anything goes' Russia
- An off-beat family makes some 'Big Mistakes' in this clever crime farce
- Netflix does Nordic noir right in 'Jo Nesbø's Detective' series
- 'Stay Alive,' about daily life in Nazi Berlin, shows how easy it is to just go along
- 'Derry Girls' creator returns with a gleeful riff on the murder mystery
- This quiet epic is the top-grossing Japanese live action film of all time