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John Powers

Recent Contributions

  • 5 hit men board a 'Bullet Train' in this fast and fun Japanese thriller
  • Britain's MI5 spy agency proves more comic than tragic in 'Slough House'
  • New translation shares the voice of a poet who wrote as intensely as she lived
  • 'This is What Happened' delivers intrigue aplenty
  • 'Tell Me How It Ends' offers a moving, humane portrait of child migrants
  • 'My Favorite Thing Is Monsters' is a dazzling, graphic novel tour-de-force
  • Two brilliantly written novels from Mexico head up a wave of literary talent
  • An exuberantly dark first novel explores the chaos of central Africa