Mendacious, half-insane, an egomaniac, a demagogue – that’s what they said about the Nazi leader in the 1930s, before his election. Remind you of anyone?Book reviews tend to make news only if they are particularly savage or concern a hotly anticipated book. So Hitler, by Volker Ullrich – the umpteenth biography of the dictator, translated from the German and published in America this month – would seem an unlikely candidate. Last week, however, Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times’ chief book critic, did something extraordinary: without ever making it explicit, she wrote an entire review about something, or rather someone, else.From the opening paragraph – in which Kakutani cites an eminent magazine editor in 1930 describing Hitler as a “half-insane rascal”, a “pathetic dunderhead”, a “nowhere fool” and a “big mouth” – one can start to guess the direction she’s looking in. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2016-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
It’s another Tuesday, and that means that a bevy of beautiful new books are out. And it’s a brilliant bevy indeed: below, you’ll find twenty-three new titles to consider that span an incredible range, including a raw new memoir from Leslie Jamison on motherhood and the self; the esteemed... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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Remember 2018, when things were definitely really bad but we could still touch people who didn’t live with us? It was a simpler (but—make no mistake—still terrible) time, when the House was flipped, everyone was in their feelings, and the city of New York was captivated by a very attractive... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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To bring yourself up to speed on the conversation surrounding former FBI Director James Comey's new memoir, "A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership," you could read something in-depth and thoughtful about it, such as Michiko Kakutani's review in The New York Times.Or you could read... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2018-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Michiko Kakutani, the chief book critic for the 'New York Times,' is leaving her job in the books department. While the paper has not named a new chief critic, Parul Sehgal (formerly of PW) is joining the paper's team of daily critics. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-07-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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President Obama in the Oval Office during an interview with Michiko Kakutani on Friday. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2017-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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President Obama in the Oval Office on Friday during an interview with Michiko Kakutani, the chief book critic for The New York Times. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2017-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mendacious, half-insane, an egomaniac, a demagogue – that’s what they said about the Nazi leader in the 1930s, before his election. Remind you of anyone?Book reviews tend to make news only if they are particularly savage or concern a hotly anticipated book. So Hitler, by Volker Ullrich – the... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2016-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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