Michiko Kakutani Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Michiko Kakutani

More books 2/2 Lenin's Tomb:The Last Days of the Soviet Empire. David Remnick Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible:Surreal Heart of the New Russia. Peter Pomerantsev The Future Is History:How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia. Masha Gessen Collected Tales. Nikolai Gogol https://t.co/SJj4bUSI8i

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"Stay with Me," a brilliant debut novel by Ayobami Adebayo about love and marriage, loss and redemption. My review: https://t.co/GCP08Z9etB

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Martin Amis's brilliant memoir "Experience" - a book that fuses his humor, intellect and daring with a new gravitas and warmth, an autobiography that is both a loving tribute to his father Kingsley, and a fulfillment of his own abundant talents as a writer https://t.co/XFKDQiiTWp https://t.co/lH42FLklQx

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Stacey Abrams Contains Multitudes: her obsessions with public policy and pop culture come together in the new Supreme Court thriller “While Justice Sleeps,” the first time she has used her own name on one of her novels. by ⁦@sarahlyall⁩ https://t.co/JtdHmq4R8I

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RT @TheBookerPrizes: We are delighted to announce that the winner of the #2021BookerPrize is 'The Promise' by Damon Galgut! Watch Damon’s w…

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RT @sciam: "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams was published 42 years ago this week. In the novel, 42 is "the answer to…

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Anna Deavere Smith on The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead: "a heartbreaking tale of what happens to vulnerable youths at the mercy of a system that lacks imagination and compassion." https://t.co/KNpl8JnVeK via @nybooks

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Final John le Carré novel, “Silverview” to be published in October. The book, which was finished before his death last December, involves a bookseller who becomes embroiled in a spy leak https://t.co/l6Vfu4KjEE

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In my 1980 interview with Loretta Lynn, she talked about seeing her life on screen in ‘Coal Miner’s Daughter’: in “the early parts, you see yourself growing up & you realize it’s not there anymore. And so you feel sad for the parts you’ve lost: you sort of want to pull time back” https://t.co/kBG5gDTtTv

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Salman Rushdie’s harrowing 2012 memoir about life under the fatwa, a book echoing w. many of his novels’ perennial themes: the emotional costs of being cut off from one’s past, the cultural clash btwn East &West, the surreal nature of contemporary history: https://t.co/RV4oVm0gXK https://t.co/fesB8nxsjk