Like any truly well-respected critic, the kind you can’t condemn for their own life choices or attempts at “personal” writing, so little is truly known about Michiko Kakutani. She has remained, since her first year in 1983 as a literary critic for The New York Times, largely arcane and unknowable. Which has made her perhaps even more controversial to those she’s eviscerated over the decades … Continue reading On the Dying Integrity of Criticism As It Pertains to Michiko Kakutani’s Retirement