Michiko Kakutani Quotes

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Like many people, I became increasingly alarmed during

Like many people, I became increasingly alarmed during the 2016 campaign and the first year of the Trump administration by the full-on war being waged on the very idea of truth.
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My mother‘s family was among the 120,000 people of Japanese descent on the West Coast who were dispatched to internment camps during World War II.
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For most of us, art is supposed to do something more than simply mirror the confusions of the world.
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I’m pretty omnivorous – in fact, I don’t think of books in terms of genres. J. K. Rowling‘s ‘Harry Potter‘ books are no more Y.A. reading, to me, than John le Carre’s ‘Smileynovels are spy stories.
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Trump tapped into a lot of middle-class and working-class disillusion with the political establishment and into economic worries and resentments that ballooned in the wake of the 2008 financial crash.
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Trump did not spring out of nowhere, and I was struck by how prescient writers like Alexis de Tocqueville and George Orwell and Hannah Arendt were about how those in power get to define what the truth is.
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Indeed, ‘The Second Plane‘ is such a weak, risible, and often objectionable volume that the reader finishes it convinced that Mr. Amis should stick to writing fiction and literary criticism, as he’s thoroughly discredited himself with these essays as any sort of political or social commentator.
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If a novelist had concocted a villain like Trump – a larger-than-life, over-the-top avatar of narcissism, mendacity, ignorance, prejudice, boorishness, demagoguery, and tyrannical impulses, she or he would likely be accused of extreme contrivance and implausibility.
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I am shy and self-conscious and awkward, so I think that’s why I became a writer.
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The removal of people of Japanese descent from their homes and their incarceration in camps were executed with the same sort of political calculus of fear and bigotry that Mr. Trump is using to redefine American immigration policy.
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The one genre I’m not really into: self-help books.
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