The New York Times' book critic from 1983 to 2017, Kakutani weighed in on every important novel, memoir, and nonfiction book, speaking with the institutional authority of the world's most important newspaper.
"My job as a critic was to give honest evaluations of new books and to try to explain why I thought they were worth reading-or not," she said after she left the paper.
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