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  • 5 days ago | clarin.com | Michiko Kakutani

    Para generaciones de aficionados, la fantasía épica de J.R.R. Tolkien El Señor de los Anillossigue siendo su primera experiencia de la magia envolvente de la ficción. La trilogía narra cómo un variopinto grupo de amigos emprende un viaje para destruir el gran Anillo de Poder y derrotar al oscuro Señor Sauron, que pretende utilizar su espantosa magia para gobernar toda la Tierra Media mediante "la fuerza y el miedo".

  • 2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Michiko Kakutani

    Tech power players and the global far-right are learning all the wrong lessons from "The Lord of the Rings."Credit... Photo illustration by Alex Merto For generations of fans, J.R.R. Tolkien's epic fantasy "The Lord of the Rings" remains their first experience of the immersive magic of fiction.

  • Jan 12, 2025 | bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com | Robin Reames |Robert Sutton |Huggy Rao |Michiko Kakutani

    Every year, the Next Big Idea Club editorial staff reviews hundreds of upcoming books to identify the best nonfiction titles. If you’re ready to boost your happiness, productivity, and general well-being in 2025, start by checking out the 25 groundbreaking books below. Stay on top of the best new non-fiction and support our work by becoming a free or paid subscriber to Book of the Day from The Next Big Idea Club.

  • Aug 18, 2024 | maddruid.com | Ex Libris |Michiko Kakutani

    The central theme of Michiko Kakutani’s The Great Wave is simple. It is written on the cover: outsiders drive innovation and they have been the cause of various disruptions in human history. It is not a groundbreaking argument to make. The unremarkable observation would have made the book an uninteresting read for me, except she manages to pull me back in with her comment on arts and culture, an area where she is clearly an authority. Kakutani formerly worked as a book critic at the New York Times.

  • Jul 15, 2024 | leadersedge.com | Scott Naugle |Michiko Kakutani |Chris Schneidmiller

    Lifestyle Reader's Edge the July/August 2024 issue A review of The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider The only thing that we can agree on in this country is that we cannot agree on anything related to politics, social policy, personal rights, the United States Constitution, animal rights, or the proper way to sear tuna (OK, the seared tuna opinion is my own). Is civil discourse a thing of the past?

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Michiko Kakutani
Michiko Kakutani @michikokakutani
24 May 25

RT @Shteyngart: My novel Vera, Or Faith, coming out July 8th, on the NYT list of hot summer books! https://t.co/fOTuTFKpiX

Michiko Kakutani
Michiko Kakutani @michikokakutani
23 May 25

RT @michikokakutani: My new essay for The New York Times looks at why today's most prominent fans of Tolkien's epic "The Lord of the Rings"…

Michiko Kakutani
Michiko Kakutani @michikokakutani
23 May 25

RT @RollingStone: “I renew my fervent appeal to allow for the entry of fair humanitarian help and to bring to an end the hostilities, the d…