Susan Sontag died four years ago and no amount of prestige publishing is going to bring her back. Reborn might make a handsome gift, with a handsome cover picture of Sontag standing handsomely at an ...

Yes, Susan Sontag was one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century. And yes, she was one of those who formed society as we now know it. Sontag was a new, shiny and exciting kind of celebrity, both ...

The first thing you see as the lights go down at Sontag: Reborn, the clever and affecting one-woman show now playing at New York Theatre Workshop, is a billow of cigarette smoke. I happened to see the ...

But Sontag eventually became the kind of critic - Harold Bloom is the worst of this type - who writes inflated encomia to Literature or Culture per se, and loses sight of fine distinctions in a fog of ...

"College is safety, because it is the easy, secure thing to do.” When Susan Sontag, celebrated American writer, thinker and philosopher, wrote these words in her diary “Reborn,” she was still a ...

In September 2006, an excerpt of Susan Sontag’s diaries, edited by her son, David Rieff, was published in the New York Times magazine, and that night I went to a dinner party where a woman poet in her ...

"Good writers are roaring egotists, even to the point of fatuity." So wrote the superbly self-obsessed Susan Sontag in Paris in 1957. These nakedly introspective diaries, edited by her son David Rieff ...