Japanese novelist Banana Yoshimoto "favors short novels that gradually reveal thin, almost translucent layers of her characters' personalities," as a critic for Publishers Weekly once explained. The a...
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In the following excerpt, Hornby contends that Yoshimoto blends prosaic and extraordinary elements in Kitchen, yet the desired effect of this fusion is unapparent in translation.
Kitchen comes to u...
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A journalist, Brown was the 1990–91 recipient of the Gannett fellowship in Asian Studies. In the following review, he provides a thematic analysis of Kitchen.
In an interview, the architect ...
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Grimson is an American novelist and short story writer. In the following review, he perceives a youthful, innocent quality and an emphasis on family life as both the strengths and weaknesses of Kitche...
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In the review below, Hanson values Kitchen as a work about modern, young Japanese.
An Excerpt from Kitchen
"Hey, look! Isn't that a pretty moon?" Yuichi pointed to the winter ...
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In the following review, Garrison perceives the novella Kitchen as a quirky and oddly upbeat examination of a young person's emotional trials.
Banana Yoshimoto's Kitchen is a tangy, i...
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Critical Review by Ian Buruma
"Weeping Tears of Nostalgia," in The New York Review of Books, Vol. XL, No. 14, August 12, 1993, pp. 29-30.
Buruma is a Dutch-born critic who has writte...
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Food Prep GadgetsOne summer of my misspent youth, I worked as a galley slave at an island inn off the New England coast, beginning each day with a peeler in hand and an inexhaustible supply of pota...
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On a recent afternoon in a small apartment in the East Village, several students from The French Culinary Institute gathered to celebrate the Fourth of July. One of them, 29-year-old Reinaldo Faber...
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Remodeling your kitchen isn't cheap. But you can expect to recoup much of the cost when you sell your house. Even if you don't get all your money back, a face-lift should make your home easier to s...
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Martin Hyde has his own recurring nightmares about Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares, the popular BBC reality TV show starring the famously silver-tongued Scottish chef Gordon Ramsay, which is bein...
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When I rented my first apartment the summer I graduated from college I didn’t really give much thought to the kitchen. Having mastered all of about five recipes that required little more than...
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A tried and true concept in the realms of real estate and home staging is “great kitchens and bathrooms sell homes.” If you watch home-staging shows, you will hear this phrase oft...
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The St. Louis Blues, last in the NHL standings again despite a change in ownership and several player upgrades, fired coach Mike Kitchen on Monday night and replaced him with former Los Angeles Kin...
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Mattel Inc. on Tuesday recalled more than 172,000 Fisher-Price kitchen toys in the United States and Europe because several children choked and gagged on small, detachable parts.The company has rec...
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Banana Yoshimoto
Critical Review by Nick Hornby
Kitchen Gadgets
