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Michiko Kakutani

• November 5 -- The Patriot Act Threatens Civil Liberties, Again
Michiko Kakutani reviews a law professor's new book on civil liberties in wartime and finds ominous modern-day parallels (of course): "At a time when the Patriot Act threatens to curtail civil liberties…."

• September 30 -- Seymour Bias in the Book Section
Michiko Kakutani praises left-wing muckraker Seymour Hersh's new book on Iraq and summarizes the current "conventional wisdom" on the war: "…a group of conservative, utopian civilians dominated thinking about Iraq at the Pentagon."

• September 14 -- Room for Kitty Kelley, None for Swift Boat Vets
After ignoring the book "Unfit for Command" by members of the Swift Boat Veterans (now #1 on the New York Times best seller list), the Times greets Bush-hater Kitty Kelley's trashy anti-Bush "biography" with a front-page Arts section review.

• June 24 -- The Times Repents for Dissing Clinton's Book
The Times, repenting for a harsh review of Bill Clinton's autobiography, is rushing a favorable review of the Clinton book onto its website--though it won't see print for another two weeks.

• June 21 -- Throwing the Book at Clinton
No one can accuse book reviewer Michiko Kakutani of going soft on Clinton's new autobiography: "The book, which weighs in at more than 950 pages, is sloppy, self-indulgent and often eye-crossingly dull--the sound of one man prattling away, not for the reader, but for himself and some distant recording angel of history."

• January 14 -- Times Book Critic Not Mum On Frum
Michiko Kakutani takes on the recent volume by conservative hawks David Frum and Richard Perle: "It is a screed….all the subtlety of a pit bull on steroids…smug, shrill and deliberately provocative….macho posturing…bullying tone and often specious reasoning." She didn't like Frum's last book much, either.

• September 25 -- The Times vs. “Scurrilous Biographies”…Sometimes
Michiko Kakutani reviews an anti-Clinton biography and doesn’t like it one bit: “Nigel Hamilton's new biography of Bill Clinton represents a sleazy new low in the chronicling of presidential lives. It regurgitates the most scurrilous and unsubstantiated rumors about Mr. Clinton and his wife…” So the Times would never herald a book full of “scurrilous and unsubstantiated rumors” about a president and his wife? Ask Nancy Reagan.