Benjamin Moser’s huge new biography of the writer Susan Sontag is a book that demands to be judged by its cover, arriving on shelves without a jot of identifying text on its jacket front. It features ...

In March 2004, the novelist and critic Susan Sontag delivered the first Nadine Gordimer lecture to audiences in Johannesburg and In March 2004, the novelist and critic Susan Sontag delivered the first ...

The young woman who would become Susan Sontag, one of the 20th century’s most visible American public intellectuals, wrote constantly about her life in private, in diaries. She rarely did so in public ...

As she prepared for her return to New York to resume writing, Sontag confided to her publisher, Roger Straus, that she felt more than a little hesitant about her homecoming. Straus was the perfect ...

If anyone is under the impression that Susan Sontag was, beneath her intellectual brio, just like everyone else, a quick perusal of Reborn: Journals & Notebooks 1947-1963, edited by her son, David ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. All her life, Susan Sontag, a voracious moviegoer, insisted on sitting in the same seat in theaters: ...