As a piece of writing, The Elementary Particles feels like a bad, self-conscious pastiche of Camus, Foucault and Bret Easton Ellis. And as a philosophical tract, it evinces a fiercely nihilistic, anti-humanistic vision built upon gross generalizations and ridiculously phony… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
I am shy and self-conscious and awkward, so I think that's why I became a writer. — 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
The current memoir craze has fostered the belief that confession is therapeutic, that therapy is redemptive and that redemption equals art, and it has… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
I'm not much of a cook. I used to keep books in my gas oven - until someone told me it was a fire… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
My mother's family was among the 120,000 people of Japanese descent on the West Coast who were dispatched to internment camps during World War II. — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
