Michiko Katutani, Author, Michiko Kakutani, Author Crown Publishers $18.95 (247p) ISBN 978-0-8129-1277-7
New York Times book critic Kakutani here gathers 35 interviews, mostly published between 1979 and 1987, of people whose work has become part of the cultural vernacular. Included are David Byrne, Laurence Olivier, Joan Didion, Stephen Sondheim, John...
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Michiko Kakutani. Duggan, $22 (224p) ISBN 978-0-525-57482-8
Honest, factual debate is expiring at the hands of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, according to this overwrought jeremiad. Kakutani, the Pulitzer-winning former New York Times book critic, presents a dire view of discourse in a world of fakery and...
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Michiko Kakutani. Clarkson Potter, $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-525-57497-2
Former New York Times book critic Kakutani delivers an ebullient celebration of books and reading. She comes up with an eclectic list of titles that have shaped her life, including classics (Shakespeare, Frankenstein, Moby-Dick), biography and...
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Michiko Kakutani. Crown, $30 (256p) ISBN 978-0-525-57499-6
A world threatened by social upheavals, economic decline, and right-wing outsider politics may be saved by left-wing outsider politics, according to this scattershot meditation. Former New York Times book critic Kakutani (The Death of Truth) surveys
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