Michiko KakutaniVerified account

@michikokakutani

former chief book critic, The New York Times; author of "The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump" (coming July 17, 2018)

New York, NY
Joined September 2009

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    My new book "The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump" will be published July 17, 2018.

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  2. Kafka’s Last Trial - a long battle over a literary legacy, including a squabble between Germany and Israel over Kafka’s papers, and the two women caught in the middle

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    This is the same kind of "national emergency" that brought you the Travel Ban. Trump has spent too much time with Putin. Absurd and deeply illegal.

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    Word of the day: "tsundoku" - the act or art of acquiring more books than one will ever actually read, such that they gather in stacks & flocks on shelves and floors (Japanese, 積ん読, lit. "pile up-read"). Especially common after Christmas. Share your tsundoku images here...

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    "This is even radical revisionist history for Russia... the only place you can find it is with Putin's party... You have to ask the question: Where else could Trump have gotten that information from but for the Kremlin itself?"- w/

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    "government bureaucrats" include security workers at airports, people who process food stamps for the poor, people who guard national parks and museums. Trump is forcing all of them into hardship, all around the country

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    What’s happening to Trump re spouting Kremlin talking points is called Metanarrative Framing ... Trump sees everything through Moscow’s worldview because they crafted a Moscow centric worldview for him. He makes all decisions within a bubble crafted by Putin. See

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    Our friend Chuck Rosenberg blew my mind today- must watch:

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    10 Literary Translators on the Art of Translation via

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    Promises from leaders still matter in America. said Mexico would pay for a wall. There’s zero evidence Mexico is paying for a wall. Evidence also still matters. So what we have is an attempt to swindle you into paying for a wall. That we don’t need.

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    Truth: No immigrants have been arrested at the border in recent years on terrorism related charges. Thanks to and for helping me sort this out.

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    Hey US press workers and TV talkers, be good patriots and drop the degrading euphemism “misstatements” and call them “lies”. Doing so doesn’t make you mean, it makes you professional.

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    Read Michael Lewis' "The Fifth Risk". Great book. The ignorance of the administration is scary.

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  19. 10 Literary Translators on the Art of Translation via

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    By focusing on parts of the virus that remain unchanged, researchers hope to develop a universal vaccine to provide lifelong protection against the [Sponsored by ]

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    Nancy Roman, ‘Mother of the Hubble’ Telescope, Dies at 93

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