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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.
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.
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 and...
Jul 12, 2018 · The Times’s former chief book critic Michiko Kakutani, author of “The Death of Truth,” doesn’t think in terms of genre: “J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books are no more Y.A. reading, to ...
Jul 29, 2017 · Who is Michiko Kakutani? What is she like? One minuscule clue came in the much-discussed interview that she conducted with Barack Obama in January, days before his second term came to an end.
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 · Michiko Kakutani: A Book Critic Who Wrote About So Much More Than Books - The Atlantic. Culture. What Michiko Kakutani Talked About When She Talked About Books. After 38 years at The New York...
