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Michiko Kakutani
Accepting the 2018 Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Award
Born (1955-01-09) January 9, 1955 (age 69)
New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Other namesMichi
EducationYale University (BA)
Occupations
  • Critic
  • author
  • journalist
Employers
  • The Washington Post (c. 1976–1977)
  • Time (1977–1979)
  • The New York Times (1979–2017)
Parents
  • Shizuo Kakutani (father)
  • Keiko Uchida (mother)
RelativesYoshiko Uchida (aunt)
AwardsPulitzer Prize for Criticism (1998)

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.

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published in Chinese, Hebrew and Japanese. In The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani praised the book as "an insightful and beautifully written… a series...

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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...

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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...

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excellent at imitating human speech. Writing in The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani called the book "powerful", but said the social allegories were at...

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And it is a warning - to Muslims and to secular pluralists alike." Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times was more critical and described Rushdie's prose...

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