Trump did not spring out of nowhere, and I was struck by how prescient writers like Alexis de Tocqueville and George Orwell and Hannah Arendt were about how those in power get to define what the truth is. — 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 overwhelmed. “A song that became popular on YouTube in 2010, ‘Do You Want to Date My Avatar?’ ends with the lyrics ‘And if you think I’m not the one, log off, log off, and we’ll be… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share
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
