Has Michiko Kakutani ever said, this is an author's best work? It seems to me that she's always criticizing a recent effort as not as good as an author's earlier works. On 12/4/09, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote: > > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/books/30book.html?_r=1&ref=books