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 ...

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 ...

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: ...