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    Michiko Kakutani turns to Donald Trump and fake news in 'The Death of Truth'

    by Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times Jul 18, 2018 4 minutes

    "The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump" by Michiko Kakutani; Tim Duggan Books (208 pages, $22)

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    Michiko Kakutani had the best literary criticism job in America. As chief book critic for the New York Times, she could review any book she wanted and won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1998. She used the word "limn" so much that it became a book reviewing cliche. Everyone in publishing read her, craving rave reviews (as she gave Jonathan Franzen's "The Corrections") and fearing an ice-cold takedown (as she gave Franzen's memoir "The Discomfort Zone"). So why, after 38 years at the paper, walk

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