John Powers
As a Guest
518 segments
Maxine Hong Kingston's work is as wondrous and alive as ever in this collection
Critic at large JOHN POWERS reviews the Library of America’s new collection of Maxine Hong Kingston’s major works.
'This is Going to Hurt' is a deeply unsettling portrait of modern medicine
The seven-part British TV series, which centers on a young doctor working in the OB/GYN ward of a London hospital, tells a painful story about the assembly-line nature of modern medicine.
New 'Staircase' series emphasizes the tragedy behind the sensational true crime story
The Staircase details the workings of a justice system filled with pricey lawyers, ambitious district attorneys, bickering experts and appeals to a jury's cultural biases that may have nothing to do with the evidence or even the case at hand.