“The photographs are us,” the late Susan Sontag wrote in 2004, in her last major essay, about the obscene images from Abu Ghraib. Those words, which have already become famous, appear in “Regarding ...

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 ...

Susan Sontag (1933-2004) was an influential intellectual, writer and critic known for her incisive analyses of culture, politics and the arts. Her works, including essays like “Notes on 'Camp'" and ...

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 ...

Susan Sontag, author, activist, and critic, died in New York today at 71. A tremendously influential figure in post-war American culture, and one of the last remaining people for whom the term “public ...

Susan Sontag, the author, activist and self-defined “zealot of seriousness” whose voracious mind and provocative prose made her a leading intellectual of the past half century, died Tuesday. She was ...

Author-activist Susan Sontag died Dec. 28 in New York of leukemia. She was 71. In addition to writing bestselling historical novel “The Volcano Lover,” the influential intellectual wrote plays, made ...

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 ...