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Michiko Kakutani (ミチコ・カクタニ, 角谷 美智子, born January 9, 1955) is an American writer and retired literary critic, best known for reviewing books for The New York Times from 1983 to 2017. In that role, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1998.
Jul 27, 2017 · For nearly four decades, Michiko Kakutani, who has decided to step down as chief book critic of The New York Times, has anointed new talent, charted the peaks and valleys of literary careers...
Jul 29, 2017 · Farewell, Michiko Kakutani! On Thursday, the Times’ chief daily book critic announced that she would be leaving her regular reviewing post after thirty-eight years at the paper, marking the end...
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Jul 12, 2018 · Michiko Kakutani: By the Book. Share full article. Jillian Tamaki. July 12, 2018. The Times’s former chief book critic, and author of “The Death of Truth,” doesn’t think in terms of genre: “J....
Feb 20, 2024 · How did the former New York Times book critic lose her edge and become a bestselling chronicler of our times? Slate explores the career and controversies of Michiko Kakutani, who once panned Norman Mailer and Zadie Smith.
Latest. The Ballad of Flaco, the Outlaw Who Learned to Fly. The Times’s longtime literary critic says that like all great outlaw-heroes, the escaped Eurasian eagle-owl tapped into our desire to see...
Jul 27, 2017 · Vanity Fair has learned that Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times chief book reviewer and Pulitzer Prize winner, who has been, by a wide margin, the most powerful book critic in the...
