Susan Sontag, who died yesterday at the age of 71, was a contentious essayist and novelist, best known for her cultural criticism, which ranged widely from discussions of literary masterpieces to ...

The fascination of Sontag lies in her endurance as a cultural icon, the model of how a woman should think and write in public, even though her thinking and writing weren’t very rigorous. What is ...

One of the few Americans to manage superbly the dual roles of public intellectual and novelist, Sontag, whose novel In America won a National Book Award in 2000, reaches a big audience even as she ...

Before she died in 2004, Susan Sontag mapped out what would be her last book of essays. (Not her last book—as always, she just wanted to get back to fiction.) Some planned pieces never got written, ...

It’s a wonderful time for fashion mavens, fans of 20th century cultural theory, and anyone who knows that line in “Rent” that goes “To Sontag! To Sondheim! To anything taboo!” As a dummy in a ...

Susan Sontag's novel "In America" won the National Book Award for Fiction last year. It was the latest of many honors– including a McCarthur Genius grant– for Sontag, who has written three other ...

Richard Howard is the author, most recently, of "Inner Voices: Selected Poems, 1963-2003" and "Paper Trail: Selected Prose, 1965-2003." When Susan Sontag died last week, at age 71, after her third ...

Author Susan Sontag's literary archive, which includes essays, film scripts and diaries, has been purchased by the UCLA Library, the university announced Saturday. An anonymous alumna of the ...

IN THE land of Vogue, People Are Talking About Susan Sontag. Through no compromises of her own, she has become a synonym for the haute culture of New York City: hopefully, sophisticated dress and ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Susan Sontag would have loved the Met Gala. (I'll get to the hate in a ...

The Sarajevo Film Festival, now 30 years old, grew out of underground screenings during the siege of the city. Those roots still define the event’s character. By Beatrice Loayza Is it a sign of ...