Susan Sontag - Wikipedia
WEBSusan Lee Sontag ( / ˈsɒntæɡ /; January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer, critic, and public intellectual. She mostly wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay " Notes on 'Camp' ", in 1964.
Susan Sontag | Biography, On Photography, Notes on Camp,
WEBApr 9, 2024 · Susan Sontag (born January 16, 1933, New York, New York, U.S.—died December 28, 2004, New York) was an American intellectual and writer best known for her essays on modern culture. Susan Sontag, c. 1990. Sontag (who adopted her stepfather’s name) was reared in Tucson, Arizona, and in Los Angeles.
'The pictures will not go away': Susan Sontag's lifelong obsession …
WEBBenjamin Moser. Tue 17 Sep 2019 03.00 EDT. In 2004, as Susan Sontag lay dying, horrifying pictures began to emerge from a prison in Iraq. She had received a diagnosis of blood cancer at the end...
How Susan Sontag Taught Me to Think - The New York Times
WEBOct 8, 2019 · How Susan Sontag Taught Me to Think. The critic A.O. Scott reflects on the outsize influence Sontag has had on his life as a critic. By A.O. SCOTT OCT. 8, 2019. I spent my adolescence in a ...
Susan Sontag - Essays, Photography & 'Notes on Camp'
WEBApr 2, 2014 · Susan Sontag was a critical essayist, cultural analyst, novelist and filmmaker. She wrote 'On Photography,' 'Illness as Metaphor,' 'The Volcano Lover' and 'In America,' among many other works.
Susan Sontag
WEBSusan Sontag was born in New York City on January 16, 1933, grew up in Tucson, Arizona, and attended high school in Los Angeles. She received her B.A. from the College of the University of Chicago and did graduate work in philosophy, literature, and theology at Harvard University and Saint Anne’s College, Oxford.
What Susan Sontag Wanted for Women | The New Yorker
WEBMay 23, 2023. Illustration by Chloe Cushman. A certain anxiety besieges the critic asked to introduce a volume of earlier writings on women, lest she find the ideas expressed in them relics of a...
Susan Sontag obituary | US news | The Guardian
WEBDec 29, 2004 · Susan Sontag, the “Dark Lady” of American intellectual life for over four decades, has died of cancer. She was 71. Sontag was a tall, handsome, fluent and articulate woman. She settled in New...
A Big New Biography of Susan Sontag Digs to Find the Person …
WEBSep 15, 2019 · By Nina Siegal. Published Sept. 15, 2019 Updated Sept. 16, 2019. UTRECHT, Netherlands — When asked what she was best known for, Susan Sontag, the formidable 20th-century public intellectual,...
Susan Sontag, Social Critic With Verve, Dies at 71
WEBDec 29, 2004 · Susan Sontag, the novelist, essayist and critic whose impassioned advocacy of the avant-garde and equally impassioned political pronouncements made her one of the most lionized presences -- and...
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