John Powers
'Minari' Follows A Family's Immigration With Humor, Humanity And Hope
The travails of immigrant life take a quietly beguiling form in Minari, a semi-autobiographical film by Lee Isaac Chung that brims with humor, humanity and hope.
'It's A Sin' Series, Set During AIDS Epidemic, Resonates During COVID-19
The emergence of AIDS provides the impetus for It's a Sin, a hit British series about five young people who share a London apartment over the years from 1981 to '91.
New Translation Shares The Voice Of A Poet Who Wrote As Intensely As She Lived
John Powers says The Copenhagen Trilogy is a story about escape — escape from menial work, escape from traditional female roles, escape from boredom, escape from reality, and escape from the heavy weight of a self that was shaped in her childhood, a time, she writes, that's "long and narrow like a coffin."