The current memoir craze has fostered the belief that confession is therapeutic, that therapy is redemptive and that redemption equals art, and it has encouraged the delusion that candor, daring and shamelessness are substitutes for craft, that the exposed life… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
For most of us, art is supposed to do something more than simply mirror the confusions of the world. — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
“Technology offers the illusion of companionship without the demands of intimacy, and communication without emotional risk, while actually making people feel lonelier and more… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
One of my favorite things, as a critic, was finding books by new writers who possessed a distinctive voice and vision, an inventive gift… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
President Trump not only lies with astonishing temerity and abandon, but those lies connect into equally false narratives that gin up the worst fears… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
Indeed, 'The Second Plane' is such a weak, risible, and often objectionable volume that the reader finishes it convinced that Mr. Amis should stick… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
Like many people, I became increasingly alarmed during the 2016 campaign and the first year of the Trump administration by the full-on war being… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
California belongs to Joan Didion. Not the California where everyone wears aviator sunglasses, owns a Jacuzzi and buys his clothes on Rodeo Drive. But… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
If a novelist had concocted a villain like Trump - a larger-than-life, over-the-top avatar of narcissism, mendacity, ignorance, prejudice, boorishness, demagoguery, and tyrannical impulses,… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
I've always been a news junkie, and an avid reader of newspapers and magazines, and this interest only ramped up during the campaign of… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
With his mendacity and increasingly virulent attacks on immigrants, Muslims, women, the press, the judiciary, the intelligence services, the F.B.I. - any group or… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
One of the things I wanted to do in 'The Death of Truth' was explore some of the larger social and political dynamics that… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
