It's been a decade since the death of Susan Sontag. Now the arrival of a perceptive and at times quite witty bio-doc from HBO's Nancy D. Kates is a great occasion not only to celebrate the legacy of a ...
In a great research coup for Los Angeles, Susan Sontag has sold her literary archives to the library at UCLA. Sontag is one of America's literary lions, and an international figure. Her most recent ...
Where does the stress fall in the life of a writer-intellectual? Susan Sontag examines the difference between exploring the interior of a subject and exploring the interior of the explorer. She speaks ...
The selfie has turned great art from protagonist to supporting actor in the Instagram-mediated stories of our own lives. In 1977, three decades before the invention of smartphone cameras, Susan Sontag ...
In 2026, I’m making my reading list deeply intentional, and these 7 authors are guiding my year. From Toni Morrison’s emotional power to Elif Shafak’s nuanced worlds and Patti Smith’s lyrical honesty, ...
Five years ago, on the eve of the US-led invasion of Iraq, Kurt and the late Susan Sontag spoke about the ways artists portray war -- how they respond to it and why we need artists to help us ...
On Summer in Baden Baden by Leonid Tsypkin (New Directions) Susan Sontag talks about the discovery of lost and forgotten masterpieces, in particular, this novel, never published in America, about an ...
Susan Sontag The Volcano Lover Novelist, essayist and driving intellectual force, Susan Sontag, died late last year. In her memory, we offer this conversation, first broadcast in October 1992. On this ...
Where the Stress Falls (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Where does the stress fall in the life of a writer-intellectual? Susan Sontag examines the difference between exploring the interior of a subject… ...