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Michiko Kakutani

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Of Ocean and Earth

  • Stephanie Bento
  • May 11, 2016
Over at the New York Times, Michiko Kakutani reviews Ocean Vuong’s new collection of heartbreakingly gorgeous poems, Night Sky With Exit Wounds. Kakutani writes: There is a powerful emotional undertow…
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The Cool Future

  • Kirstin Allio
  • April 28, 2016
“All plots tend to move deathward,” the narrator of “White Noise” says. “This is the nature of plots. Political plots, terrorist plots, lovers’ plots, narrative plots, plots that are part…
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Coming of Age

  • Roxie Pell
  • February 23, 2016
The publication of Go Set a Watchman may have cast Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird in a new light, but the high school classic and its author will forever…
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New Year, New Reading List

  • Charley Locke
  • January 8, 2016
When Esquire released a list of “The 80 Best Books Every Man Should Read,” the magazine provoked ire and excoriation. But hey, at least Esquire has recognized its mistake. For…
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The Kakutani Two-Step

  • Michael Berger
  • October 15, 2009
“The Kakutani Two-Step. It works roughly like this: belittle a novelist’s finest work to date – preferably by tossing around unsupported adjectives…say, “arbitrary,” “flimsy,” and “unfinished.” Then, five or six…
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