Michiko Kakutani
Autor(a) de Ex Libris: 100 Books to Read and Reread
About the Author
Michiko Kakutani is an American literary critic and writer. Her alma mater is Yale University. Early in her career she worked for The Washington Post and then Time magazine. She began at The New York Times in 1979 as a cultural reporter. She is the former chief book critic of The New York Times. In mostrar mais 1998, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Her debut book was published in July 2018 and is entitled The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: Courtesy of the Pulitzer Prizes.
Obras de Michiko Kakutani
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Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- Kakutani, Michiko
- Nome de batismo
- Kakutani, Michiko
- Outros nomes
- 角谷 美智子 (Japanese name)
- Data de nascimento
- 1955-01-09
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- Educação
- Yale University (BA | 1976 | English)
- Ocupação
- Reporter (The Washington Post)
Time (1977)
Reporter (1979 | The New York Times)
Literary Critic (1983 | The New York Times) - Relacionamentos
- Dowd, Maureen (friend)
Kakutani, Shizuo (father) - Organizações
- The New York Times
- Premiações
- Pulitzer Prize (Criticism, 1998)
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- Obras
- 6
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 956
- Popularidade
- #26,957
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Resenhas
- 34
- ISBNs
- 31
- Idiomas
- 5
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- 1
Adverb: used as an inscription on a bookplate to show the name of the book's owner:
Noun: ex libris (noun) · ex libris (plural noun): a bookplate inscribed to show the name of the book's owner.
Origin: Latin, literally ‘out of the books or library (of someone)’.
While I’m not too hot on the title (the sound and visual throw me), Ex Libris--100 Books to Read and Reread is a book devotional by Michiko Kakutani, famed senior book critic for the New York Times (now retired). Published in 2020, that terrible year, this book was one of the better things to emerge from the maelstrom. It’s a lovely volume, with beautiful illustrations by Dana Tanamachi that give the book as much merit at least as the text itself. Beautiful end papers and book titles illustrations are delightful and give an emotional lift with their vibrant colors and design. The contents are arranged alphabetically by the authors’ surnames.
I assume these are 100 of Ms. Kakutani’s favorites; hasn’t she read everything written at least in 2 centuries? The reviews are combinations of the original book review published in the NYT and additional remarks, perhaps written for this publication. Titles go back as far as The Odyssey (Emily Wilson’s 2017 translation) and as recent as On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous; books about work and vocation by various authors, and books on democracy and tyranny, a topic of great concern to Ms. Kakutani when Ex Libris was published, no doubt because of Trump’s presidency. She has a searing distaste for him, and I salute her for it.
I don’t think it’s available in paperback; while available in audiobook, it’s best read as a hand-held book, at least to appreciate the illustrations. Non-glare heavyweight 5x8 pages await your comments. 304 pages. Blank pages at the end for personal additions. A thoughtful layout makes this volume feel like a gift from one book lover to another.… (mais)