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Items by By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
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Books of The Times: The Lion of the Screen, and What Made Him Roar
Posted: December 10th, 2008, 12:39am GMT by By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
Stefan Kanfer’s new biography of Marlon Brando focuses not on the actor’s personal difficulties, but on his work and the often tortuous route those projects took on their way to the screen.
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Books of The Times: Voters Are Red, Voters Are Blue
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 5:17am GMT by By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
Calvin Trillin tells the story of the 2008 presidential election, in light verse.
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Books of The Times: Bonds That Seem Cruel Can Be Kind
Posted: November 4th, 2008, 5:13am GMT by By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
Toni Morrison’s remarkable new novella, “A Mercy,” is, at once, a kind of prelude to “Beloved” and a variation on that earlier book’s exploration of the personal costs of slavery.
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Books of The Times: A Goody-Two-Shoes Trips the Spy Fantastic
Posted: October 24th, 2008, 4:49am GMT by By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
In her ridiculous new novel, Diane Johnson attempts to use the war on terror as a backdrop for a social comedy about a clueless young American woman named Lulu.
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Books of The Times: Terrorists and Spies, Weaving Their Webs
Posted: October 7th, 2008, 5:58am GMT by By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
John le Carré’s latest novel is set in Hamburg, Germany, the city where Mohamed Atta and other members of Al Qaeda prepared for their assault on the United States.
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Books of The Times: A Dead Man Tells of His Too Short Life
Posted: September 17th, 2008, 3:59am GMT by By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
Philip Roth’s latest book — in which a dead man tells of his too short life — reads like an elaborate, blackly comic joke. And it’s a joke, in the end, that doesn’t amount to a full-fledged novel.
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Books of The Times: Family Tries Reassembling the Shards of Its Past
Posted: September 9th, 2008, 4:44am GMT by By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
Marilynne Robinson’s new novel, “Home,” a kind of bookend to her Pulitzer Prize-winning “Gilead,” is an inward-looking story about a dying man and two of his children computing the losses in their lives and their distance from God.
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Books of The Times: When Fear and Chaos Are Normal, Peace and Safety Become Unimaginable
Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 3:29am GMT by By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
Farnaz Fassihi’s powerful new book, “Waiting for an Ordinary Day,” gives a sense of the fallout that the American invasion and occupation of Iraq have had on civilians’ daily lives.
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Books of The Times: The Business of Politics, the Politics of Business
Posted: August 19th, 2008, 5:00am GMT by By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
In his new book, “The Wrecking Crew,” Thomas Frank turns to the question of “How Conservatives Rule” once they’ve gotten into office.
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Television: Is Jon Stewart the Most Trusted Man in America?
Posted: August 17th, 2008, 4:41am GMT by By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
Jon Stewart says his job is just throwing spitballs. But in satirizing a world that defies satire, “The Daily Show” delivers both news and morality.
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Books of The Times: Lessing Looks Back on Shadows and Parents
Posted: August 5th, 2008, 3:19am GMT by By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
Doris Lessing once declared that “fiction makes a better job of the truth” than straightforward reminiscence. This observation does not apply to her latest book.
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Books of The Times: Hush, Hush, Sister Dearest, Your Fall Was an Accident
Posted: July 8th, 2008, 4:47am GMT by By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
“The Sister” is powered by the same sort of confidently rendered literary suspense that propelled Donna Tartt’s “The Secret History” onto best-seller lists.
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Books of The Times: The Unexamined Life? He Never Heard of It
Posted: June 10th, 2008, 5:07am GMT by By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
With “When You Are Engulfed in Flames,” David Sedaris is like a stand-up comedian, rummaging through his daily experiences for comical nuggets.
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Books of The Times: Why Knowledge and Logic Are Political Dirty Words
Posted: March 11th, 2008, 4:45am GMT by By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
There are few subjects more timely than the one tackled by Susan Jacoby in her new book.