Topic: Michiko Kakutani

Digging to America

After becoming friends, the two families set a yearly tradition to throw a party in celebration of the arrival of the children. The story follows the relationship of the two households and the evolution of cultural and moral values of each of ...
Twenty authors attended Wednesday night's National Book Awards ceremony as finalists, each of them selected by a committee of readers made up of poets, novelists, historians, and critics of all stripes. The New York Times reported on the finalists here in ...
Two things curious about Dwight Garner's new gig as daily book critic at The New York Times: James Wolcott is in there quipping poisonously that while there is a pattern of Times critics going "downhill" after winning their Pulitzer, "We'll ...

The end of the hoax

#183; As Banksy spraygunned stencilled images on to an underpass wall in Shoreditch in the small hours of the morning, he knew that what he was really doing was taking one small step towards his eventual discovery. A British journalist wandered round ...
Former Getty Museum antiquities curator Marion True went on trial in Athens yesterday on charges she conspired over a decade ago to acquire for the museum an ancient gold funerary wreath.After the Battle of Brooklyn: East River Incognita II "further examines ...