Norman mailer has taken on New York Times book critic Michiko Kakutani. “In an interview with Rolling Stone [Mailer] called the Japanese-American critic ‘a one-woman kamikaze’ and ‘a token’ minority hire.” He says “authors do like to reviewed on publication day, not two weeks earlier with a heinously bad review … This is what Ms. Kakutani has been doing to my books for many years now, and that may not be politically correct, but it sure is foul.”