Michiko Kakutani is an American literary critic and former chief book critic for The New York Times. She is the bestselling author of The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump.

Kakutani initially worked as a reporter for The Washington Post, and then from 1977 to 1979 for Time magazine, where Hersey had worked. In 1979, she joined The New York Times as a reporter.

Kakutani worked as a literary critic for The New York Times from 1983 until her retirement in 2017. Her periodically harsh reviews of some prominent authors have garnered both attention and, on occasion, criticism.

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