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...

Massachusetts. Kakutani was married to Keiko ("Kay") Uchida, who was a sister to author Yoshiko Uchida. His daughter, Michiko Kakutani, is a Pulitzer...

on—while praising Crocodile Dundee, E.T. and Terminator 2". Similarly, Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times writes, "Mr. Booker evaluates works of art on...

Kakutani is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: Michiko Kakutani (born 1955), Japanese-American Pulitzer Prize-winning critic...

Japanese politician Michiko Ishimure (石牟礼道子), a Japanese writer Michiko Itatani (born 1948), Japanese artist Michiko Kakutani (角谷 美智子), an American...

to Michiko Kakutani, some aspects of the novel reflect Nietzsche's model of Apollonian and Dionysian expression in The Birth of Tragedy. Kakutani, writing...

Ministry to Man, was published in 1959, one year before Mockingbird." Michiko Kakutani made note of the changes between the two versions: "Some plot points...

regarding the last part of the book". In The New York Times, critic Michiko Kakutani called Amsterdam "a dark tour de force, a morality fable, disguised...

to the United States. Despite its scope, it is according to critic Michiko Kakutani, "somehow, acutely personal." The book sold well (15,000 copies in...

expands upon Rice's vampire mythology, and The New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani noted, "We learn lots of 'facts' about vampires and vampire culture...

of Diana, Princess of Wales. The book was panned by critics, with Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times calling it "tawdry and tiresome". Katha Pollitt...

1997 Ambassador Book Award for Fiction. In The New York Times, critic Michiko Kakutani called the work “dazzling ... a book that forces us to reassess the...

feminism a bad name" by The New York Times principal book reviewer Michiko Kakutani. Another New York Times journalist, John Leonard, stated "In The Terror...

established herself as a prominent writer on Californian culture. As critic Michiko Kakutani stated, "California belongs to Joan Didion." The title of the book...

criticizing the novel's strident politics and moral relativism. Reviewer Michiko Kakutani argued that Maguire "shows little respect for Baum's original story...

being "rave" and two being "positive". Writing in The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani called the book "powerful", but said the social allegories were at...

Trump has no specific political stances. The New York Times reporter Michiko Kakutani criticized Trump for boasting about his business ventures while offering...

reviewers had a harsh opinion about the publication of the sequel book. Michiko Kakutani in her Books of The Times review found that the book "makes for disturbing...

succeeds as a manic, human, flawed extravaganza. In the same newspaper, Michiko Kakutani wrote a somewhat unfavorable review, calling it "an unwieldy, uneven...

that rich and stupid and narcissistic!'". (The article states, "When Michiko Kakutani first reviewed Less Than Zero in The New York Times in June of 1985...

been a much lesser book." Reviewing Jarhead for The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani said the book combined "the black humor of Catch-22 with the savagery...

Kelly for The Scotsman called it "unequivocally a masterpiece." Critic Michiko Kakutani, reviewing Bleeding Edge for The New York Times, called it "Pynchon...

Role"[permanent dead link], soapoperadigest.com; accessed September 24, 2017. Michiko Kakutani, "Stage: 5 of the 'Best' Short Works at the Nat Horne", The New York...

the storm, which could — with no justification — shatter my body." Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times wrote that the phrasing of his comments on 9/11...

mainstream appeal. In a generally favorable review, The New York Times' Michiko Kakutani called it "Pynchon Lite", describing it as "a simple shaggy-dog detective...

paedophilia, and torture, as well as for being an apology for eugenics. (Michiko Kakutani described it in The New York Times as "a deeply repugnant read".) The...

eight weeks. The book received positive reviews from critics such as Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times and David Shribman of The Globe and Mail. Clinton...

Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton. Michiko Kakutani, reviewing it, wrote "while Anne Sexton often comes across as a truly...

selected from several thousand entrants as the author of the new novel. Michiko Kakutani, writing in The New York Times, called it "a solid enough performance:...

of 5) based on critic reviews with a critical summary saying, "Only Michiko Kakutani had some negative things to say about the schematic plot, but she conceded...