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  1. 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.

  2. 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...

  3. 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.

  4. 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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  5. 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 ...

  6. Jan 26, 2017 · By Michiko Kakutani. Jan. 26, 2017. The dystopia described in George Orwell’s nearly 70-year-old novel “1984” suddenly feels all too familiar. A world in which Big Brother (or maybe the...

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  8. Michiko Kakutani became book critic in the cultural news department at The New York Times in January 1983. She had served as a reporter covering cultural news since 1979, when she joined The Times. Ms. Kakutani came to The Times from Time magazine, where she had been a staff writer since 1977. Before that she was a reporter at The Washington Post.