Example sentences for: michiko

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  • Critics praise Véra for the details it reveals about the Nabokovs' intense marriage--she was his "editor, typist, secretary, chauffeur, nursemaid, go-between, buffer, researcher and butterfly-catching companion" (Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times ). But when you get down to it, "this is really a potted biography of Vladimir Nabokov, told from an unusual angle" (Michael Dirda, the Washington Post ). The PEN celebration featured readings by and about the Nabokovs by Joyce Carol Oates, Dimitri Nabokov, David Remnick, and Véra author Stacy Schiff.

  • The New York Times ' Michiko Kakutani comes down the hardest, turning in a scathing review in which she calls the book "an airless, tedious production" that "represents a sharp falling off in ambition, nuance and vision from Mr. Wallace's previous works of fiction."

  • Yet another self-obsessed, neurotic narrator ("Diane Keaton playing a health-food fiend addicted to Xanax"--Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times ) makes her debut in a collection of short stories.

  • "Roy gives us a richly pictorial sense of these characters' daily routines and habits," said Michiko Kakutani in the New York Times , "and she delineates their emotional lives with insight and panache, revealing the fatal confluence of jealousy, cruelty and naivete that shapes their destinies forever."

  • The hype revs up for McCourt's follow-up to his best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning Angela's Ashes . 'Tis tops all fall preview lists, and now the first review is in: Michiko Kakutani (the New York Times ) says it's "a considerably angrier book than Angela's Ashes . ...


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