Michiko Kakutani, and More
As a critic, she was fearsome and discerning. As an author of inert buzzword-laden books, she's pitiable.
A question hangs over the reputation of the writer Enrique Gómez Carrillo: Did he betray his lover, a spy, to the French in World War I?... more »
As a critic, Michiko Kakutani was fearsome and discerning. As an author of inert buzzword-laden books, she's pitiable... more »
“The measure of a society’s stage of moral sophistication is how infrequently it r…