John Powers

Guilt, a darkly comic Scottish thriller about two Edinburgh brothers who do a bad thing then scramble to avoid the consequences.

Critic John Powers reviews the Japanese Thriller ‘Bullet Train', by Kotaro Isaka.

William Gardner Smith wrote the story of a Black writer who, like Smith himself, moved to Paris to pursue a freedom he couldn't find in America. New York Review Books is releasing a new edition.

John Powers reviews Unforgotten, a British series whose fourth and finest season airs on PBS' Masterpiece. He says the series is twistily plotted and suffused with sadness.