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Film critic John Powers talks with host Terry Gross about the holiday movies coming out and about his favorite films from the last year. (Broadcast Date: December 21, 2001)

Pulitzer prize winning journalist Thomas Powers on this edition of Fresh Air. His new book is Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda. Powers wrote about Iraq after the war in The New York Times article, "The Man Who Would Be President" (Sunday, 3/16/03).

Hear author Richard Powers and film critic David Edelstein on this edition of Fresh Air. Richard Powers talks about his novel The Echo Maker. In the book, a 27-year-old man is in a car accident and emerges from a coma with a rare neurological disorder. He can recall most everything about his life, but he believes his family members and closest friends are imposters. The Echo Maker won the National Book Award for fiction in 2006 and has just been released in paperback.

Journalist Andrew Meldrum and journalist, lecturer, human rights activist Samantha Powers on this edition of Fresh Air. Andrew Meldrum was recently abducted and expelled from Zimbabwe by government authorities. He had been the Guardian's Zimbabwe correspondent, and was the last foreign journalist allowed to file from the country. Samantha Power was the founding executive director of the Harvard University Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.

Hear journalist Jeff Goodell and film critic Jon Powers, on this edition of Fresh Air. Jeff Goodell's book Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future is now out in paperback. Goodell says we are more dependent on coal than ever.

Hear critic-at-large John Powers and Iraqi activist Yanar Mohammed on this edition of Fresh Air. First, John Powers reports back from his trip to the Cannes Film Festival. Then, Yanar Mohammed, the internationally renowned founder of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq. The organization fights to stop atrocities against women and advocates for women's rights.

Hear presidential historian Robert Dallek and rock critic Ken Tucker on this edition of Fresh Air. Dallek's new book is Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power. He writes about two ambitious men who were very different in some ways but very similar in others, describing the two as "self-serving characters with grandiose dreams of recasting world affairs". Dallek is also the best-selling author of An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy.

Hear investigative reporter Mark Schapiro and book critic Maureen Corrigan, on this edition of Fresh Air. Mark Schapiro's new book is called Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products, and What's at Stake for American Power.