Critics on Critics

As someone who has a fixation with criticism, I was instantly captivated by Ben Yagoda’s smashing takedown of New York Times book critic Michiko Kakutani. This, dear readers, is how to criticize a critic:

One has the sense of her deciding roughly at Page 2 whether or not a book is worthy; reading the rest of it to gather evidence for her case; spending some quality time with the Thesaurus; and then taking a large blunt hammer and pounding the message home.