| 单词 | Susan Sontag |
| 例句 | Precocious is hardly the word for what Susan Sontag was. She Made Thinking Exciting: The Life and Work of Susan Sontag 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z Inspired by Susan Sontag’s 1964 essay, “Notes on ‘Camp,’” the latest spectacular from the Met’s Costume Institute tries to define this elastic, constantly evolving concept, which leaves taste, seriousness and heteronormativity in the dust. Labor Day Art Guide: Summer Shows to See Before They Close 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z This wide-ranging collection of writing about dance — 100 entries spanning three centuries, including pieces by the likes of Josephine Baker and Susan Sontag — tells the story of an evolving and deeply felt art form. New & Noteworthy 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z Smith’s characters access what Susan Sontag called “a little civic fortitude.” Ali Smith’s ‘Summer’ Ends a Funny, Political, Very Up-to-Date Quartet 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z And no period piece, to loosely paraphrase Susan Sontag, captures the age of their concern, as they’re documents of the time that yielded them. Rewatching the X-Files: my 50-episode binge 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z “Camp proposes a comic vision of the world,” Susan Sontag wrote in the 1964 essay that gives this Brooklyn Academy of Music series its name. Film Series in NYC This Week 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z If you’d heard of Taubes before this novel was recently reissued by New York Review Books, there’s a good chance it was in connection with Susan Sontag. A Skeptical Heroine, Unconvinced by Religion, Romance or Psychoanalysis 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z The company’s inaugural production, “Let Us Now Praise Susan Sontag” at Abrons Arts Center, doesn’t quite justify that enthusiasm. Review: ‘Let Us Now Praise Susan Sontag,’ by Sibyl Kempson 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z “I like finding things where nobody was looking,” Nunokawa writes, echoing Susan Sontag and Walter Benjamin. Is Facebook the place for serious essays? Jeff Nunokawa thinks so 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z Her works make us question not just her motives for looking at what the critic Susan Sontag – with typical hauteur – called "people who are pathetic, pitiable, as well as repulsive", but also our own. Diane Arbus: humanist or voyeur? 2011-07-26T10:56:29Z Susan Sontag said of Paley that she was a natural, “with a voice like no one else’s: funny, sad, lean, modest, energetic, acute.” Four Books That Deserved More Attention in 2018 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z The writer and public intellectual Susan Sontag later said the film had made her want to kiss the screen. Jean-Marie Straub, Uncompromising Filmmaker, Is Dead at 89 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z Way back in 1965, Susan Sontag observed that “we live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror.” ‘We’re All Going to the World’s Fair’ Review: Is It Horror, or Just Ennui? 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z Dying of leukemia in 2004, Susan Sontag carried “Don Quixote” with her to radiation treatments, and blitzed through “Persepolis” in her hospital bed at Memorial Sloan Kettering. Reading Proust in the Gulag 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Casting a wide net over the topic of Palestine, the 2012 London Palestine Film Festival kicked off last week, presenting contemporary comedic and dramatic films, a 1974 Susan Sontag documentary, and video installations. In Transit Blog: In London, Films About Palestinians 2012-04-25T19:10:23Z From these experiments in compressed memories, Khan went on to tackle iconic photographic works – including books by theorists Susan Sontag and Roland Barthes – to high culture's greatest hits, such as Beethoven's sonatas and Rembrandt's self-portraits. Artist of the week 80: Idris Khan 2010-03-25T13:25:00Z It was a slim volume called “Illness as Metaphor,” by Susan Sontag. Perspective | The virus caused more than a pandemic. It set us all ablaze. 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z “I have seen the film twice, and expected to see more in it the second time,” Susan Sontag wrote, in a review in Film Quarterly. The Film That Yields Nothing on a Second Viewing—or a First 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z In "Regarding the Pain of Others," Susan Sontag recognized this of the powerful emotional responses people often have to photographs of violence. Do we need photos of violence to galvanize support for change? 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z Talking of which, do you loathe Gore Vidal and Susan Sontag as much as me? Distant Intimacy by Frederic Raphael and Joseph Epstein – digested read 2013-03-18T08:00:27Z “Interpretation,” as Susan Sontag memorably wrote “is the revenge of the intellect upon art.” The Startlingly Beautiful Films of Nathaniel Dorsky 2012-04-13T17:02:18Z In the 80s he collaborated with Susan Sontag on their illustrated story of Aids and its impact, The Way We Live Now. Howard Hodgkin - the last English romantic painter 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z A half century ago, Susan Sontag wrote, “All the conditions of modern life—its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness—conjoin to dull our sensory faculties.” How I Solved It: Making My Desktop Into Art 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z When Susan Sontag began writing the essay that became “Notes on Camp,” in 1964, her goal was to “name a sensibility,” as she later told an interviewer for Salmagundi. The Met Gala 2019: It May Not Have Been Camp, But It Was Fashion 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z I mean, I was sitting at the International House of Pancakes with a beret on at a table, reading Susan Sontag’s “On Photography” and writing in my diary. David Sedaris on his new book, 'Theft by Finding' 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Ephron was not a canonical feminist icon, a Susan Sontag or a Saint Simone; she was too funny, too commercial, too successful. My hero: Nora Ephron by Elaine Showalter 2012-06-29T21:55:19Z She was not the most naturally gifted writer — Susan Sontag and David Foster Wallace were among her detractors — but she played her hand exceedingly well, and she came along at the right time. Kathy Acker, Drawn to the Margins, Pushed Literature’s Boundaries 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z Multiple times, Geller reiterated a quote by writer and critic Susan Sontag, who insisted “rules of taste enforce structures of power.” “God hates Renoir”: He sucks at painting, and this is why you should care 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z “Compassion is an unstable emotion,” Susan Sontag wrote in “Regarding the Pain of Others.” A Syrian Refugee Lands in Ireland in ‘From a Low and Quiet Sea’ 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z In “Notes on Camp,” Susan Sontag wrote that in pure camp “the essential element is seriousness, a seriousness that fails.” We can’t take a joke anymore: The inflated dangers of pushing the envelope and crossing the line 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z The church wasn’t packed, but the eulogists — Robert Wilson, Susan Sontag — were stars. Art Review: Believing Is Seeing (Or, the Meat Of the Matter) 2010-10-21T21:30:00Z Her children were one inspiration for Pilgrimage; another was the death of her partner Susan Sontag in 2004, with whom she first discussed compiling a book about the places they yearned to visit. Annie Leibovitz: 'Creativity is like a big baby that needs to be nourished' 2012-06-02T23:05:39Z Moser, however, claims that it is as a metaphor that Sontag matters most: “Sontag’s real importance increasingly lay in what she represented. The metaphor of ‘Susan Sontag’ was a great original creation. In ‘Sontag,’ the Author’s Myth Takes Center Stage 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z He observes how Jewish kids like Norman Mailer, Saul Bellow, Susan Sontag, Woody Allen and Philip Roth were socialized academically and otherwise into American culture and “went on to take possession of it.” ‘Excellent Sheep,’ William Deresiewicz’s Manifesto 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z Like any interdisciplinary provocateur in the 1980s, she was an “occasional friend and occasional enemy” of Susan Sontag. She Never Existed. Catherine Lacey Wrote Her Biography Anyway. 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z As he begins to issue his books, his correspondents come to include boldface names like Paul Theroux and Susan Sontag, with whom Chatwin shared a fondness for gnarly Chnatown eating in Manhattan. Books of The Times: In His Own Words, a Singular Man?s Double Life 2011-02-17T22:58:45Z He didn't have enough money to stay at the Sarajevo Holiday Inn, where people like Susan Sontag hung out, and he was soon being fed by a local orphanage. Last night's TV 2010-05-25T07:00:00Z “What the hell is Susan Sontag doing in my bedroom?” he forehead-smacks in Paris one night, watching her leaf with presumed judgment through his night-stand reading after a dinner party. James Ivory, Famous for Buttoned-Up Films, Is Frank About Sex and Much Else in His Memoir 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z The other great influence is Susan Sontag, whose “On Photography” includes a critique of Agee’s and Evans’s documentary project and who also appears in the play, portrayed with steely evenness by Tanya Selvaratnam. Review: ‘Let Us Now Praise Susan Sontag,’ by Sibyl Kempson 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z Susan Sontag, writing about Leiris’s “Manhood,” noted that the book was “formless,” “provides no consummation or climax,” and is “sometimes boring.” Megan Boyle’s “Liveblog” and the Limits of Autofiction 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z He also writes smitten elegies to his influences, including Adrienne Rich, Susan Sontag and Montaigne. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z For an hour, the assembled New York book scene bathed in the presence of a writer who Susan Sontag once termed "the contemporary Hungarian master of the apocalypse". Why is New York's literary crowd suddenly in thrall to Hungarian fiction? 2012-07-13T21:30:01Z Susan Sontag’s “Duet for Cannibals,” which she wrote and directed, fit both categories. Susan Sontag’s Mind Games 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z After their arrest, protests from cultural figures around the world, including Susan Sontag and Jean-Paul Sartre, focused attention on their plight, and they were released but expelled from the country. Judith Malina, Founder of the Living Theater, Dies at 88 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Writing a few years after the film’s release, the cultural critic Susan Sontag likened its impact on cinema to the effect the Cubists had on traditional painting. Jean-Luc Godard, Daring Director Who Shaped the French New Wave, Dies at 91 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z “It was not easy for me to tell Susan Sontag that, particularly knowing how much she thought of herself as a film-maker. But we were friends and remained friends.” 'I was very angry' – the last interview with Jonas Mekas, godfather of avant garde film 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z For a more conventional group show look to “Notes on Notes on ‘Camp’ ” at Invisible-Exports, a crowded and rambunctious celebration of the aesthetic so clearly analyzed by Susan Sontag. Art Review: Rising and Regrouping on Lower East Side 2011-04-22T03:31:42Z Susan Sontag cautioned us against turning illness into metaphor, arguing that disease is challenging enough without the symbolic cargo branding the stricken as “other” instead of merely human. In 'Model Apartment' at the Geffen, family scars are skin deep — and to the bone 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z “I knew that if I was going to be involved with Susan Sontag, I was going to have to be better — be a better photographer, be a better person,” Ms. Leibovitz said. Annie Leibovitz’s Work on ‘Women’ Is Never Done 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z “To love this book,” Susan Sontag once wrote, “is to become a little less provincial about literature, about literature’s possibilities.” A Playful Masterpiece That Expanded the Novel’s Possibilities 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z The best writing in the book appears in its quotations from Virginia Woolf and Susan Sontag. Unmastered by Katherine Angel – review 2012-08-10T21:55:05Z She has an “important baby look,” as I suspect Susan Sontag did. In Louise Glück’s New Book, Infant Twins Offer Contrary Worldviews 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z Did researching and reporting the book change your opinion of any of the major authors in it, who include Susan Sontag, Tom Wolfe and Philip Roth? ArtsBeat: The Mostly Good Old Days: Boris Kachka Talks About ‘Hothouse’ 2013-07-31T16:34:41Z Susan Sontag wrote that photography has its own ethics: It tells us what we are allowed to see and what’s taboo. The iPhone at the Deathbed 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z There’s a new biography of Susan Sontag and a collection of Adrienne Rich’s groundbreaking essays. ‘The Dolphin Letters’ Shine Light on a Famous Marital and Literary Scandal 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z In her brilliant final book, “Regarding the Pain of Others,” Susan Sontag noted that “the appetite for pictures showing bodies in pain is as keen, almost, as the desire for ones that show bodies naked.” ‘The Hateful Eight’ and ‘The Revenant’ bring the pain, but what do we gain? 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Susan Sontag, who directed Godot in a besieged Sarajevo in 1993, declared: "Beckett's play, written over 40 years ago, seems written for, and about, Sarajevo". South Africa township happy to take its turn waiting for Godot 2010-08-01T16:50:00Z It might not be wrong to see his art as a form of high camp, an extension of what Susan Sontag described in her famous essay “Notes on Camp.” Art Review: Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, at MoMA PS1 2012-12-06T21:51:50Z In the same vein, Susan Sontag asserted that, in future decades, “the display of negative thinking” in the movie would seem “facile.” The Half-Century Anniversary of 'Dr. Strangelove' 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z But more often than not, the decisions seem arbitrary, amounting to dissidence on the consumer level — something that Susan Sontag and other cultural critics complained about in the 1990s. Critic?s Notebook: Pushing Fashion Boundaries in an Era Without Any 2011-01-12T22:45:41Z “Let the atrocious images haunt us,” Susan Sontag once wrote. The Art of Staying Cool: 10 Can’t-Miss Summer Shows in New York 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z A few years earlier, in The New York Times Book Review, Susan Sontag had proclaimed the end of cinephilia and the “decay” of the art form that sustained it. And Now Let’s Review … 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Susan Sontag called him “one of the half dozen or so living American writers worth taking seriously.” Books of The Times: ‘Complete Short Stories of James Purdy,’ Literary Outsider 2013-07-18T19:56:21Z She is concerned with the skin on her face, the relative prettiness of her twin sister and the ghost of Susan Sontag. A case of shifting identities in Vendela Vida’s twisty new novel 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z It was 50 years ago, in 1965, in Mademoiselle magazine, of all places, that Susan Sontag announced the existence of a “New Sensibility” afoot in American culture. The New Sensibility of Susan Sontag & Tom Wolfe: The “dark lady” and the man in white were an unlikely pair, but both were looking to liberate American culture 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z Ravenhill has returned the compliment by writing a libretto about the great plague of London, taking inspiration from Samuel Pepys, Daniel Defoe and Susan Sontag's polemical work, Aids and Its Metaphor. Marc Almond: From bedsit to plague pit 2011-07-18T20:31:01Z On Photography, by Susan Sontag, which I read in my early 20s. Michael Stipe: ‘Who would I say sorry to? Everyone I slept with before the age of 27’ 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z And then a few months after that in the aftermath of 9/11 when this country went insane, they banned, they canceled Susan Sontag. The "race-obsessed liberal" nightmare: "We have to fight for a country that doesn't love us back" 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z Lopate, himself an excellent essayist, is also a leading curator of the form; here, he collects examples from an extraordinary era that included Susan Sontag, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, James Agee and more. New & Noteworthy, From Brilliant Essays to Stupid People 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z Fornés tells one, about an encounter in a Paris café, loses her way midstory, and then says, “It was not Michelle that I met in a café in Paris, it was Susan Sontag.” An Extraordinary Documentary Portrait of a Playwright Facing Alzheimer’s Disease 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z Emphasizing such cultural explanations is a bold move, one that goes directly against Susan Sontag’s old admonishments against illness as metaphor. In ‘Jell-O Girls,’ a Dark Family History Behind a Candy-Colored Dessert 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z He commissioned Susan Sontag’s dispatch from Hanoi at the height of the Vietnam War, and James Baldwin’s ruminations on race in America after the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. As Men Are Canceled, So Too Their Magazine Subscriptions 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z Holding the fort in the name of… well, himself really, Norman Mailer struggles manfully to fend off a gang of marauding brainy women including Susan Sontag, Germaine Greer and Diana Trilling. Game, set and spats… a grand slam of tennis movies 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z He notes, too, that Katharine Hepburn and Susan Sontag shared “the same ruthless determination, the same sense of privilege, the same get-out-of-my-way stride.” ‘Avid Reader’: Robert Gottlieb’s candid look inside the golden era of publishing 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z The early meandering — including bland pages on former pro turned tournament director James Blake and a curious digression on a 1964 Susan Sontag essay — reflects a lack of focus that is distinctly un-Serena like. Review | Serena Williams is more than a tennis player. ‘Seeing Serena’ offers a prismatic view of her impact. 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z Susan Sontag looks like an ordinary, bland young woman of the period. Art Review: Warhol?s Silent Film Portraits 2010-12-23T22:39:01Z I first met Susan Sontag in spring, 1976, when she was recovering from cancer surgery and needed someone to help type her correspondence. T Magazine: Suddenly Susan 2011-02-25T17:39:23Z Susan Sontag and Donald Duncan, a Green Beret who had just quit the military in disgust, spoke at its inauguration. Ed Ruscha’s stunning Sunset Strip art project lets you tour its full length, east to west — and back in time 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z All her life, Susan Sontag, a voracious moviegoer, insisted on sitting in the same seat in theaters: third row, center. In ‘Sontag,’ the Author’s Myth Takes Center Stage 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z "Godard is not merely an iconoclast," that prophet of modernism Susan Sontag declared in 1968, "he is a deliberate 'destroyer' of cinema." 50 years of Breathless 2010-06-05T23:04:00Z Susan Sontag, in an early diary entry, commented that physical beauty was “enormously, almost morbidly, important to me.” In ‘Pew,’ a Mysterious Stranger Tests a Small Town’s Tolerance 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z “One cannot hold on to a Happening,” Susan Sontag wrote in 1962, “and one can only cherish it as one cherishes a firecracker going off dangerously close to one’s face.” Party Like It’s 1959 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z In “The Imagination of Disaster,” Susan Sontag’s classic 1965 essay on science-fiction movies, she observed that “we live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror.” When the Movies Pictured A.I., They Imagined the Wrong Disaster 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z You have to wonder, reading it, if Susan Sontag’s “Notes on Camp” has finally found its ecstatic textbook. Solmaz Sharif and the poetics of a new American generation 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z In breezy biographical chapters on 10 writers, including Susan Sontag, Joan Didion and Pauline Kael, Dean explores their successes and failures and their relationship to feminism. New in Paperback: ‘The Strange Order of Things,’ ‘The Pisces’ 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z What was it about him that so transfixed Susan Sontag, one of the house’s most illustrious authors? Books Of the Times: In ‘Hothouse,’ Boris Kachka Tells the Farrar, Straus Story 2013-08-08T20:34:15Z Like her friends Elizabeth Bishop and Susan Sontag, Hardwick made her literary name in a man’s world that was tough and unsentimental, and she was initially suspicious of second-wave feminism. The Cutting Mind and Romantic Heart of Elizabeth Hardwick 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z “A novel worth reading is an education of the heart,” Susan Sontag said. Lauren Oyler’s ‘Fake Accounts’ Captures the Relentlessness of Online Life 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z And Lake Micah, a bespectacled 24-year-old, was holding forth on Susan Sontag. The Drift Wants You to ‘Examine Your Ideas’ 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z She moved from painting to playwriting almost accidentally while trying to help her lover at the time, a young and ambitious teacher at Columbia University named Susan Sontag, write a novel. María Irene Fornés, ever the teacher, continues to instruct 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Put Susan Sontag’s “The Volcano Lover” in front of me, and I’d slide it back to you, unopened, unread. By the Book: Donna Leon 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z She spent a stretch of the 70s spent studying in New York, working under the guidance of Susan Sontag. Kathryn Bigelow on Detroit: ‘There’s a radical desire not to face the reality of race’ 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z As The Times wrote, she played “Andy Warhol, Haring’s mother, a demonic nurse and a critic who resembles Susan Sontag.” Julee Cruise, Vocalist of ‘Twin Peaks’ Fame, Dies at 65 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z And to the mansion where a teenager named Susan Sontag visited one of her literary heroes, the German exile and Nobel laureate Thomas Mann. Read Your Way Around Los Angeles 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z She toured China in 1973 with a group that included Susan Sontag. Review: The Reporter Ethel Payne in ‘Eye on the Struggle’ 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z “Camp sees everything in quotation marks,” Susan Sontag wrote in her 1964 essay “Notes on ‘Camp.’” Review: ‘Paul Swan Is Dead and Gone,’ but First, He’s Dévastaté 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z Once frequented by Andy Warhol, Greta Garbo and Susan Sontag, the major weekly Manhattan flea markets in Chelsea began downsizing in 2005, after almost 30 years. The Flea Circus 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z One of the best I received from him was “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches,” by Susan Sontag. Just Like You, Claire Messud Never Read ‘A Brief History of Time’ 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z Grumpy Susan Sontag came over and hated Tangier. The Madness of Queen Jane 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z It goes almost without saying that Mr. Mead was playing himself, as Susan Sontag observed in Partisan Review. Taylor Mead, Bohemian and Actor, Dies at 88 2013-05-10T02:48:13Z When the author shacked up with Susan Sontag’s son, and his brainy mom, in 1976, three was not company. T Magazine: Suddenly Susan 2011-02-25T17:39:23Z A former New Books columnist at Harper’s Magazine, he is currently writing the authorized biography of Susan Sontag. Which Canonical Work is Frequently and Frustratingly Misread? 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z “Regarding Susan Sontag,” a documentary Monday night on HBO, will fill you in on a lot of the details of its subject’s life: her precocity, her travels, her illnesses, her lovers. Susan Sontag Is Recalled in an HBO Documentary 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z Sebald became an international figure after his work was championed by Susan Sontag. A Biography of W.G. Sebald, Who Transformed His Borrowings Into Lasting Art 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z Many of the intellectual heavyweights are here, from Hannah Arendt to Susan Sontag to James Baldwin. New & Noteworthy 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z Bergman’s theme, Susan Sontag has suggested, is doubling. L.A. Opera lets Ingmar Bergman's film 'Persona' sing 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z The most compelling of several biographies is Nancy Kates’s perceptive film “Regarding Susan Sontag,” about that cultural critic and writer, who died in 2004 and belonged to a vanishing breed of literary celebrity. Critic’s Notebook: The Tribeca Film Festival Begins Its 13th Season 2014-04-15T16:18:57Z When Susan Sontag cracked her on the snout in an exchange of views in The New York Review of Books in 1975, referring to her “anti-intellectualism,” it was catnip for what would become my crowd. ‘The Power of Adrienne Rich’ Captures a Forceful and Complicated Poet 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z Susan Sontag wrote about how photographs document war and how they can be so easily ignored. 'A way for me to honor them': artist Jaime Scholnick on her Gaza images 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z In the 1960s, as Mr. Godard ascended to international culture-hero status, one of his most eloquent English-language champions was Susan Sontag. ‘Goodbye to Language,’ the Latest From Jean-Luc Godard 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z It sounds a bit like Gertrude Stein or poorly translated Kant, but is attributed to Susan Sontag. ‘Birdman’ Stars Michael Keaton and Emma Stone 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Films about Susan Sontag, New York City Ballet and the artistic director of Christian Dior are among the works in competition at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival, organizers announced Tuesday. ArtsBeat: Tribeca Film Festival Announces First Round of Programming 2014-03-04T17:44:46Z She was Susan Sontag, and four decades later she recounted the episode in a story for this magazine. Thomas Mann Lived Here 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z That she was a writer and a critic before all other things made her a bit of a spiritual fellow-traveller of Susan Sontag, odd couple though they make. Nora Ephron’s genius early days 2012-06-27T20:20:00Z They say no one likes a critic, but they might just change their minds were they to watch the new bio-doc "Regarding Susan Sontag." TV This Week Dec. 7 -13: 'The Red Tent' on Lifetime 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z As Susan Sontag puts it: "People want the weight of witnessing without the taint of artistry, which is equated with insincerity." Watching you 2010-05-21T23:06:00Z The lineup also includes “Regarding Susan Sontag,” directed by Nancy Kates, about the cultural critic and writer. ArtsBeat: Tribeca Film Festival Announces First Round of Programming 2014-03-04T17:44:46Z There’s nothing wrong with a gossipy account of a full, glamorous life, and “Regarding Susan Sontag” provides that, in some measure. Susan Sontag Is Recalled in an HBO Documentary 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z The author of a previous book comparing Pauline Kael and Susan Sontag, Seligman diverts here and there to Sontag’s “Notes on ‘Camp,’” but spends most of his time simply retracing Fish’s footsteps. Long Before RuPaul, Doris Fish Wore the Wig. Fiercely. 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z The young Flannery O’Connor’s journals were rediscovered earlier this decade, and those of Susan Sontag continue to be published. A Newly Published Story for the New Way We Read Sylvia Plath 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z Susan Sontag called interpretation the revenge of the intellect upon art. Movie Review: ‘Tim’s Vermeer’ Chronicles an Attempt to Make One 2014-01-30T23:17:13Z In her integral 1964 essay, “Notes on Camp,” Susan Sontag says that in addition to “Swan Lake” and Tiffany lamps, camp is “stag movies seen without lust.” Like ‘Mommie Dearest’? Stream These Movies for Pride Month 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Nichols attended the University of Chicago, where Susan Sontag was also a student. ‘Mike Nichols’ Captures a Star-Studded Life That Shuttled Between Broadway and Hollywood 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. Talk: The Devil in Marina Abramovic 2012-06-16T03:00:07Z There are no anecdotes about Susan Sontag’s taste in Beethoven recordings or Oliver Sacks’s entertaining quirks. A Publishing Superstar Whose Memoir Shuns Glitz to Explore Private Torment 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Susan Sontag, assessing his 1964 novel, “Cabot Wright Begins,” for The New York Times Book Review, called him “indisputably one of the half-dozen or so living American writers worth taking seriously.” James Purdy, a Fabulist Haunting the Fringes 2013-08-26T21:23:20Z In the Sept. 24, 2001, issue of The New Yorker, Susan Sontag’s response to 9/11 was one of the shorter ones. Dread, War and Ambivalence: Literature Since the Towers Fell 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z It was Jack Kerouac and Susan Sontag, and it was a one-night thing. AM Homes interview: 'I write the things we don't want to say out loud' 2013-06-07T19:00:03Z My first bookstore was the long-ago vanquished Pickwick Books on Hollywood Boulevard, the same locale where a young Susan Sontag was caught shoplifting a copy of “Doctor Faustus.” Read Your Way Around Los Angeles 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z Susan Sontag dedicated “Notes on Camp” to camp’s patron saint, Oscar Wilde. A Few Notes on Grumbling 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Susan Sontag once wrote that “in contemporary English letters he seems to me peerless.” John Berger, Provocative Art Critic, Dies at 90 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z Like Susan Sontag’s “On Photography,” to which it self-consciously responds, “The Social Photo” is slim, hard-bitten and picture-free. Times Critics’ Top Art Books of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z In her books Illness As Metaphor and Aids And Its Metaphors, Susan Sontag argued against the oppressive moralising of disease, which was increasingly portrayed as an individual problem. Why are the poor blamed and shamed for their deaths? 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z After leaving Ramparts in 1970, he collaborated with Susan Sontag on the first American book of Castro-era Cuban posters, “The Art of Revolution.” Dugald Stermer, Illustrator and Ramparts Art Director, Dies at 74 2011-12-08T04:57:38Z Her friends included Susan Sontag, who was, for a time, her lover. Review: In ‘The Rest I Make Up,’ a Playwright’s Life as Memories Ebb 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z Death singing In her excursions to grave sites and house museums, Smith photographed, from left: Virginia Woolf’s bed; Susan Sontag’s grave in Montparnasse Cemetery. T Magazine: Patti Smith, Requiem Lass 2011-10-14T15:15:24Z I just wish Susan Sontag were still around. Bringing Guantánamo to Park Avenue 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z “Everytime” is the perfect visual footnote to Susan Sontag’s “Notes on Camp.” One thing can get a buttoned-up millennial feminist to praise Las Vegas: Britney Spears 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Then, in 1993, the writer Susan Sontag, Leibovitz’s companion, encouraged her to deepen her work by documenting the conflict in Sarajevo. Annie Leibovitz, the Un-Fashion Photographer 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z In an essay for the 1983 premiere, Susan Sontag summarized Childs' dance as euphoric. After 32 years, 'Available Light' brighter than ever 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z For Susan Sontag, keeping in mind this larger context was essential. New Books Update Our Thinking About Cruelty 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z Inspired by Susan Sontag’s 1964 essay, “Notes on ‘Camp,’” the latest spectacular from the Met’s Costume Institute attempts to define this elastic, constantly evolving concept, which leaves taste, seriousness and heteronormativity in the dust. 38 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Susan Sontag once wrote that “there is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.” Cultural Studies: The Digital Lives of Babies 2011-02-18T22:04:31Z ‘Let Us Now Praise Susan Sontag’ Sibyl Kempson, a distinctive and delirious writer, begins her new theater company with this vexing play, at once too diffuse and too didactic. Theater Listings for May 8-14 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z The skunk stripe in her swooping black hair identifies her instantly as Susan Sontag, a lodestar of literary culture for decades and practically the last public intellectual the country has produced. Theater Review: ‘Sontag: Reborn,’ at New York Theater Workshop 2013-06-07T02:00:01Z According to Slate, her “blissful unawareness lets the series finally embrace camp,” which would either depress or delight Susan Sontag were she alive. Kathy Hilton’s Calling 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z Susan Sontag said to experience something is a way of thinking. Robert Wilson takes a walk with angels in Norfolk 2012-08-22T17:00:01Z I interviewed him for a Village Voice feature in 2000 on Susan Sontag when he was resurrecting her recalcitrant drama "Alice in Bed" at New York Theatre Workshop. Meet Ivo van Hove, the most provocatively illuminating theater director right now 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z In her landmark essay "Notes on 'Camp,'" Susan Sontag defines the aesthetic as such: "artifice, frivolity, naïve middle-class pretentiousness and shocking excess." If entertaining is a domestic performance, let Thanksgiving be camp 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z As what she called a “punk in the countryside” seeking to escape xenophobia and gender rigidity, she turned to the book and Susan Sontag’s classic essay “Notes on Camp” as “catalysts for freedom.” A Female Composer Makes History With ‘Orlando’ in Vienna 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z Regarding Susan Sontag, titled in homage to her final work, will weave together interviews, footage and readings from Sontag’s prolific body of work. Watch the Trailer for the Upcoming HBO Documentary Regarding Susan Sontag 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z It is most reminiscent of the editions of Susan Sontag’s journals that have appeared in recent years and that have became very popular among a certain kind of young, bookish person. Joan Didion gets out of town in 'South and West' — and finds only fragments 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z “The very activity of taking pictures is soothing, and assuages general feelings of disorientation that are likely to be exacerbated by travel,” wrote Susan Sontag in the 1977 book “On Photography.” The Travel Selfie: I Was Here, Give Me a Discount 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z Susan Sontag wrote that “the painter constructs, the photographer discloses.” New Portraits by Chantal Joffe at the Jewish Museum 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z You’re a digital native, and your publisher describes you as “what Susan Sontag would have been like if she had brain damage from the internet.” Jia Tolentino Wants You to Read Children’s Books 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z In the future, I doubt that “Susan Sontag” will loom so large, however: the celebrity intellectual “with the looks of a musketeer,” as Moser describes her, the “thinker unafraid of men.” In ‘Sontag,’ the Author’s Myth Takes Center Stage 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z As for the artist herself, she looks like Simone de Beauvoir, sounds like Susan Sontag, and when you ask a question, there is a moment of silence before she answers. Susan Hiller 2011-01-30T00:02:04Z Manguel might best be described not so much as a critic but rather as a devotee of reading; one thinks of Susan Sontag, or of Clive James – observers, admirers, enthusiasts. A Reader on Reading by Alberto Manguel 2010-04-30T23:14:00Z Cinematic visions of apocalypse, as Susan Sontag wrote in her 1965 essay “The Imagination of Disaster,” allow the viewer to “participate in the fantasy of one’s own death” and “the destruction of humanity itself.” Arts & Leisure: All-Star Cast for Steven Soderbergh?s ?Contagion? 2011-08-26T21:36:34Z Susan Sontag Sontag's criticism remains as fine and fierce as anything she has written. Young Arts Critics 2010: critical conditions 2010-05-24T20:30:00Z In Susan Sontag’s “Notes on ‘Camp,’” she says it’s all about artifice and exaggeration, living life in quotation marks. Notes on cocktail camp: From tiki to the boozy juice box, a celebration of the unstuffy drink 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z Susan Sontag once wrote of Weil: “No one who loves life would wish to imitate her dedication to martyrdom nor would wish it for his children nor for anyone else whom he loves.” Women Rule at Ojai Festival, Unannounced 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z Those like Lionel Trilling, Susan Sontag and the older Saul Bellow recoiled in fastidious repugnance from its vulgar materialism and anti-intellectualism, turning back to Europe — or rather, upward, to European high culture — for refuge. A Polymath Author With More Ideas Than He Can Handle 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Sometimes, if the men are the evolved types who went to college at, say, Hampshire or Vassar, they toss in a Joan Didion or a Susan Sontag. Just like a woman: I’m a feminist and I love Bob Dylan—even though I know I shouldn’t 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Some commentators, including Susan Sontag, have argued that she plainly did. Review: Arthur Lubow’s Diane Arbus Biography Recalls an Underworld Voyager 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z When questions are invited from the audience, Susan Sontag rises and, in a reasonable, even friendly voice, says that she has a “very quiet question” for Mailer. Norman Mailer’s Snarling Encounter with Feminism, Restaged in Trump’s America 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z In The New York Review of Sex, an essay by the art historian and anthologist Gregory Battcock invokes Herbert Marcuse, Susan Sontag and Marshall McLuhan in defense of insouciant sleaze. Art In Review: DAVID PLATZKER 2012-07-05T20:37:54Z Susan Sontag attends to the genre of art world “happenings.” ‘Art in America 1945-1970,’ Edited by Jed Perl 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z You’ve written about your close relationship with Susan Sontag over the last 15 years of her life. The Book That Turned Annie Leibovitz Into a Photographer 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z “Photographs may be more memorable than moving images, because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow,” Susan Sontag wrote in her book “On Photography.” Images of the Vietnam War That Defined an Era 2013-09-04T22:30:01Z His first day on campus he met a precocious 16-year-old bookworm named Susan Sontag, with whom he became friends for life. Mike Nichols’s Brilliant Career 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z His friends included the writer Susan Sontag, whom he once took to a stock car race. Larry McMurtry, Novelist of the American West, Dies at 84 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z Inspired by Susan Sontag’s famous 1964 essay, “Notes on ‘Camp,’” the latest spectacular from the Met’s Costume Institute attempts to define this elastic, constantly evolving concept, which leaves taste, seriousness and heteronormativity in the dust. 22 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z “All photographs are memento mori,” as Susan Sontag wrote in “On Photography.” How Teju Cole's new novel literally reframes the Black experience 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z Hernandez’s sentimental reasons for adopting the Edgar haircut bring us to camp, that sensibility which Susan Sontag defined as “a tender feeling.” The Edgar is all the rage among the foos 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z I often stumble across this list of Susan Sontag’s likes and dislikes, a quirky assemblage of the mundane and the extraordinary: Spring Returns 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z Over the years, this distinguished scholar has concentrated on the social history of knowledge, most recently in 2020’s “The Polymath: A Cultural History From Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag.” Review | Ignorance is not always bliss — and not always bad — a new book argues 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z So I have borrowed the format of “Notes on Camp,” in which the ultimate high-low interpreter, Susan Sontag, attempts to pin down the elusive sensibility that is camp. TikTok's addictive anti-aesthetic has already conquered culture 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z As Susan Sontag put it, “What is called collective memory is not a remembering but a stipulating: that this is important, and this is the story about how it happened.” How will history remember Jan. 6? 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z For all the qualms I had about the speculation in Benjamin Moser’s controversial Susan Sontag biography, I fell in love with his endnotes, some of which exceeded a page in length. A starry-eyed Elizabeth Taylor biography misses a golden opportunity 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z Still, Pinckney found reassurance when told that “Susan Sontag freaked out at the sight of her marked-up manuscripts.” Review | Darryl Pinckney’s new book is a dishy tale of literary Manhattan 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Susan Sontag, who set the agenda for all the wrongheaded ways of thinking about Arbus in a 1973 essay for the New York Review of Books, didn’t like this absence of advertised empathy. Review | Diane Arbus was accused of exploiting ‘freaks.’ We misunderstood her art. 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z Of the subjects in the MoMA show, Susan Sontag wrote, “Do they see themselves, the viewer wonders, like that? Do they know how grotesque they are?” A New Look at a Diane Arbus Exhibition, 50 Years Later 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z It’s enough to make Susan Sontag smile, a return to a version of camp that feels flashy and vague. Perspective | How Sinema subverts the radical conventions of queer politics 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z Her project echoes the revelations of the poor dispossessed photographer, Vincent, and brings to mind Susan Sontag’s essays on the form. Review: Anthony Marra's new novel both celebrates and punctures American myths 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z More substantial is an argument borrowed from critic Susan Sontag, that we hold ugly images at bay because they make us feel impotent, or helpless. Perspective | Why did it take Ukraine to remind us of war photography’s relevance? 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z Every surface of his bathroom, from the ceiling to the inside of the shower, was covered with photographs of friends and artists, including Paul Valéry, Robert Frost, Harold Bloom and Susan Sontag. Richard Howard, Pulitzer-winning poet and translator, dies at 92 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z PEN America is typical of the establishment hijacking of an organization that was founded and once run by writers, some of whom, including Susan Sontag and Norman Mailer, I knew. PEN America, the "human rights" careerists and the betrayal of Julian Assange 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z In her 1964 essay “Notes on ‘Camp,’” Susan Sontag described camp as an aesthetic “emphasizing style … at the expense of content,” expressing a “love of the exaggerated, the ‘off,’ and of things-being-what-they-are-not.” Perspective | How Sinema subverts the radical conventions of queer politics 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z What Susan Sontag called “the image-world” is now just the world. Hollywood Still Matters. These Actors Showed Why. 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z Compared with her fellow cultural critics Joan Didion and Susan Sontag, Hardwick enjoyed a more understated degree of success. Review: Long overshadowed, Elizabeth Hardwick has a biography. She deserves even better 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z It takes what it wants and holds it forever — “like a footprint or a death mask,” as Susan Sontag wrote. The Emily Ratajkowski You’ll Never See 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z I don’t know whether Susan Sontag actually heard this piano being played, but she once told me her obsession with music began as an awestruck teenager visiting Mann in his house. Thomas Mann's magic piano, heart of 1940s L.A. intellectual life, comes home 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z Susan Sontag writes, “Photography implies instant access to the real. But the results of this practice of instant access are another way of creating distance.” Can posting a thirst trap on Instagram help you process grief after unspeakable loss? 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z During the two or three times that Malcolm popped into her office, always gracious, to grab a book by Hannah Arendt or Susan Sontag, I never told her the story. Appreciation: Journalist Janet Malcolm's work was a marvel, both chilling and provocative 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z In her celebrated book “Illness as Metaphor,” Susan Sontag — herself a cancer survivor, who years later succumbed to a different cancer — warned us against seeing ill health as a figure of some other social ill. Opinion | Salman Rushdie: What’s irretrievable after a pandemic year 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z Susan Sontag and Rolland Barthes took photography seriously as art, artifact and cultural symptom, while others argued that in contemporary culture there was no escaping a reality already infused with images. Review | The art of the photograph; the photograph as art 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z “In a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry,” Susan Sontag wrote in her essay “Melancholy Objects,” “the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage.” How One Looted Artifact Tells the Story of Modern Afghanistan 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z Before he’d matriculated — he was in line to register — he met an exceptional misfit named Susan Sontag. Review: In 'Mike Nichols: A Life,' a brilliant portrait of the director who made his luck 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z Among white American writers, poets like Robert Lowell were the first to protest, along with prose writers like Susan Sontag and Norman Mailer. Opinion | The Post-Trump Future of Literature 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z View the art exhibition, “On Photographs,” named after a new book by David Campany, a curator and writer based in London and New York who was inspired by Susan Sontag’s “On Photography.” Cook an Indigenous Meal or Dance with Dua Lipa 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z In her essay “Against Interpretation,” published a decade before “Einstein,” Susan Sontag contends that “to interpret is to impoverish.” Philip Glass and 'Einstein on the Beach': How one opera changed everything 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z But the American cultural critic Susan Sontag warned us in the 1970s against illness as metaphor. Once the Disease of Gluttonous Aristocrats, Gout Is Now Tormenting the Masses 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z "Ten percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction," Susan Sontag said. The politics of cultural despair: That's what's killing us, not Donald Trump 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z Susan Sontag argued that the difference lies in the handling of space. Convention speeches are an art. How Biden and Trump can get it right, virtually 2020-08-13T04:00:00Z Nobody, until maybe Susan Sontag, understood photography better than him. Danny Lyon’s best photograph: two boys and a puppy in Knoxville 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z Health regained is the end of what Susan Sontag calls disease’s “psychic voyage.” Beethoven for pandemic times: How Opus 132 is journey through illness and healing 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z “One of America’s most valuable troublemakers,” Susan Sontag called him. Larry Kramer, Playwright and Outspoken AIDS Activist, Dies at 84 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Moser, 43, was cited for “an authoritatively constructed work” capturing Susan Sontag’s “genius and humanity alongside her addictions, sexual ambiguities and volatile enthusiasms.” Pulitzer Prize: 2020 Winners List 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z Benjamin Moser won a Pulitzer for his biography “Sontag: Her Life and Work,” about the prominent author and cultural critic Susan Sontag, published by Harper Collins. Colson Whitehead wins second fiction Pulitzer, Ben Moser's 'Sontag' wins for biography 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z Benjamin Moser’s “Sontag: Her Life and Work,” about the late Susan Sontag, won for biography. Colson Whitehead’s ‘The Nickel Boys’ wins Pulitzer Prize 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z Susan Sontag described it as “not only one of the masterpieces of 20th-century world literature, but one of the most influential of the century’s books”. Beyond American Dirt: the best books to understand Latinx culture 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z Susan Sontag observed that when you have a disease people identify you with it. The Art of Dying 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z The book, which drew comparisons to Susan Sontag’s “Illness as Metaphor,” was called “extraordinary and furious” by The New York Times. Pulitzer Prize: 2020 Winners List 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z He also made many friends, including poet Robert Lowell, and writers George Plimpton and Susan Sontag, who called him the first person she had met truly at home in both science and the arts. Jonathan Miller, Acclaimed Theater Director and Writer, Dies at 85 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Benjamin Moser’s new authorized biography of Susan Sontag painstakingly attempts to reconcile the writer’s contradictory private self with her glamorous persona as a public intellectual. The journalist as influencer: how we sell ourselves on social media 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z 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. Review: A biographer gently pulls back the curtain on Susan Sontag 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z I met Susan Sontag once, at a party. The Art of Dying 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z In an essay from 2005, Wayne Koestenbaum wrote, “At no other writer’s name can I stare entranced for hours on end—only Susan Sontag’s. She lived up to that fabulous appellation.” Susan Sontag and the Unholy Practice of Biography 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z She reacted to that moment in her piece “To Tell a Story,” which incorporates edited audio from a 1983 interview with Susan Sontag. With a cello and a cohort of female composers, Amanda Gookin pushes classical forward 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z It’s been nearly 45 years since Susan Sontag wrote: “To preen, for a woman, can never just be a pleasure. It is also a duty.” Lipstick, glitter and pink, pink, pink: selfies rule at Meccaland – a photo essay 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z Now, a new biography of Susan Sontag claims she was the brains behind her first husband Philip Rieff’s most famous book, Freud: The Mind of the Moralist. Susan Sontag is just the latest woman known to have had her work stolen by a man 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z First published in 1964, Susan Sontag’s essay Notes on Camp remains a groundbreaking piece of cultural activism. From Susan Sontag to the Met Gala: Jon Savage on the evolution of camp 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z Two volumes of Susan Sontag’s diaries, edited by her son, David Rieff, have been published, and a third is forthcoming. Susan Sontag and the Unholy Practice of Biography 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z "The hallmark of camp is the spirit of extravagance. Camp is a woman walking around in a dress made of three million feathers," US philosopher Susan Sontag wrote in her 1964 essay Notes On Camp. The stories behind the Met Gala outfits 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z In her 1964 essay “Notes on ‘Camp,’ ” Susan Sontag wrote, “The hallmark of Camp is the spirit of extravagance. Camp is a woman walking around in a dress made of three million feathers.” The Sartorial Confections of the Met’s “Camp: Notes on Fashion” 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z The exhibit is built around author Susan Sontag’s noted 1964 essay “Notes on Camp,” dedicated to Oscar Wilde, the 19th century poet and playwright. Bring on the camp: Met Gala exhibit explores camp in fashion 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z Well, inspiration here is drawn from the late American writer Susan Sontag's lauded essay "Notes On Camp". Four things to expect this week 2019-05-05T04:00:00Z A counter-attack from Susan Sontag hailed it as “a bravura work of satire”, but the damage was done. 'I'm not a gay writer, I'm a monster': did James Purdy foresee Trump's America? 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z A wonderful section has the narrator reading Susan Sontag’s journals, noticing phrases that have been underlined, unsure in one instance whether she or her husband did the marking. Writing About Writing About the Border Crisis 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z The chief enemies at home, it seemed, were postmodernist professors, multicultural activists and intellectuals like Susan Sontag, whose skepticism about the impending quest for vengeance overseas rendered them, effectively, traitors. What Could Be Wrong With a Little ‘Moral Clarity’? 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Quoting Susan Sontag, he writes: “Photographs of an atrocity may give rise to opposing responses. Or, simply the bemused awareness, continually restocked by photographic information, that terrible things happen.” Ai Weiwei hits Los Angeles: 'I cannot accept anything which is not precise' 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Susan Sontag, in an interview, said she would never have become a writer without the example of Jo March. How “Little Women” Got Big 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z Susan Sontag grappled with similar questions in her short book Regarding the Pain of Others, published in 2003. Is compassion fatigue inevitable in an age of 24-hour news? 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z He freely mixed art forms: In addition to hosting visual and performance artists, KW also featured figures such as essayist Susan Sontag and fashion designer Hedi Slimane as residents. Museum of Contemporary Art appoints MoMA curator Klaus Biesenbach as new director 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z Susan Sontag did two big things last year. The Hunger Artist 2000-02-28T05:00:00Z As Susan Sontag dared to comment right after the bombing, it’s no good calling suicide bombers cowards. America’s patriotic fervor is a epidemic problem, supported by the GOP 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z Susan Sontag, probably the most influential writer on the intersection of violence and photography, didn’t buy this argument. What Does It Mean to Look at This? 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z There is not a single photograph in Susan Sontag’s classic “On Photography.” The Magic of Books Where Photography Meets Essays 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z Susan Sontag writes extensively about this in "On Photography." How images — sometimes manipulated and altered — are shaping the seething world of our politics 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Susan Sontag writes extensively about this in “On Photography.” How images — sometimes manipulated and altered — are shaping the seething world of our politics 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z That includes the 12 female cultural critics — including Pauline Kael, Susan Sontag and Joan Didion — whose work and lives she outlines in her book, subtitled "The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion." Books: Writing and gun violence, women in criticism, politics at the Festival of Books and more 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z While some praise her for finding the “familiar in the strange” and “unusual in the ordinary”, others, like Susan Sontag, say she simply exploits them—making specimens of her subjects. Why photograph outsiders? 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z This anxiety-laden emphasis on the supposed necessity of interpretive explanation — of storytelling — is what Susan Sontag once called “a subtle or not so subtle form of philistinism.” It takes a striptease to enliven 'Stories of Almost Everyone' at the Hammer Museum 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z Susan Sontag once noted that “seeing tends to accommodate to photographs.” Joel Meyerowitz’s Career Is a Minihistory of Photography 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Susan Sontag once defined the word “camp” as “a woman walking around in a dress made of three million feathers.” A Film That Pays Homage to the Bygone Era of London Couture 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Susan Sontag is best known for her essays, but she also wrote novels, a play and short stories. Review: New collection of Susan Sontag’s shorter fiction 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z In her landmark 1978 essay, “Illness as Metaphor,” Susan Sontag railed against the view, popularized by psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich, that cancer is “a disease following emotional resignation — a bio-energetic shrinking, a giving up of hope.” Perspective | John McCain is a fighter, no question. But can attitude affect cancer? 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z After Kakutani panned Susan Sontag’s book Regarding the Pain of Others, the late Susan Sontag was less than pleased. The literary life of Michiko Kakutani: the book critic's best feuds and reviews 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z Susan Sontag rose to voice her objection to the term “lady.” The Feuds of Diana Trilling 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z The Q&A portion of the event at New York’s Town Hall featured broadsides from the likes of Susan Sontag and Betty Friedan. Women's lib, safe spaces and no-platforming: how the Town Hall affair still defines our discourse 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z “I was regarded as the brilliant young critic till Susan Sontag came along and eclipsed me, partly because of her looks, I can tell you.” Norman Podhoretz Still Picks Fights and Drops Names 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Susan Sontag once described Berger as peerless in his ability to make “attentiveness to the sensual world” meet “imperatives of conscience”. John Berger, art critic and author, dies aged 90 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z It reminds me of something she wrote about another apparently intimidating writer, Susan Sontag. Siri Hustvedt: ‘Trump was elected because misogyny is alive and well’ 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z And critics, such as the writer Susan Sontag, had begun to warn about the faulty assumptions encouraged by war metaphors. Defeating cancer was once a ‘war’; now it’s a ‘moonshot’ 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z Critic, novelist, poet, dramatist, artist, commentator – and, above all, storyteller – Berger was described by Susan Sontag as peerless in his ability to make “attentiveness to the sensual world” meet “imperatives of conscience”. John Berger: ‘If I’m a storyteller it’s because I listen’ 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z Thus the passion of Norman Podhoretz: son of Brooklyn, employer of James Baldwin and Susan Sontag, former leftist, qualified supporter of Donald J. Trump. Norman Podhoretz Still Picks Fights and Drops Names 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Some of these people – such as drag queen and actor Divine, artist David Wojnarowicz, writers Susan Sontag and William Burroughs – feature in this book of incisive portraits, all beautifully sequenced with subtle visual correspondences. Peter Hujar: the photographer who defined downtown New York 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z The week after 9/11, Susan Sontag was virtually crucified for pointing out that “a few shreds of historical awareness might help us understand how we came to this point”. Two American Dreams: how a dumbed-down nation lost sight of a great idea 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z The famous cemetery is also the resting place of the likes of Charles Baudelaire, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Samuel Beckett and Susan Sontag. Designers remember Sonia Rykiel during funeral in Paris 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z In a conversation with Susan Sontag, he once said: “A story is always a rescuing operation.” John Berger: ‘If I’m a storyteller it’s because I listen’ 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z Next, I try Susan Sontag, the American essayist and author, but that name is also taken. Pulitzer Prize-winner Phil Kennicott’s Pokémon Go diary 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z If you’ll allow me to butcher Susan Sontag, the act of booing is too often little more than the revenge of the audience upon the intellect. Cannes: Kristen Stewart in 'Personal Shopper,' and other grief-haunted heroines 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z Roiphe begins with Susan Sontag, who, having lived through cancer once, was sure she could beat it again. Tales of writerly death 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z “Today everything exists to end in a photograph,” Susan Sontag wrote in her seminal 1977 book “On Photography.” In the Future, We Will Photograph Everything and Look at Nothing 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z In this, Eco was not so different from other fashionable media commentators, such as Susan Sontag and Marshall McLuhan. Umberto Eco obituary 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z I saw Waiting for Godot directed by the late Susan Sontag, who visited Sarajevo. Sarajevo love story: how my photograph revealed the joy and pain of Bosnia's war 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z “What I love most about America,” the late Susan Sontag once told me, is that, “you’re allowed to change your life, to reinvent yourself.” Seven ages of Hillary Clinton: a woman who in her time has played many parts 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z Her piece is worthy of the late, great Susan Sontag. Letters to Calendar: C'mon, give him Tom Hardy an award 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z And there is a line on the first page of Susan Sontag’s novel Death Kit that voices a similar sentiment: “Some people are their lives,” she says, others “merely inhabit” them. Too much information? The writers who feel the need to reveal all 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z The poet Allen Ginsberg and the critic Susan Sontag, who testified on behalf of the film’s artistic value, are both dead. The Prosecution Resets in a 1964 Obscenity Case 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z The exhibition is a continuation of Women, a project Leibovitz began over 15 years ago with her close friend, writer Susan Sontag. Caitlyn Jenner to feature in new Leibovitz exhibition - BBC News 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Susan Sontag famously wrote in 1978 about how military terminology is used, wrongly, to discuss illness. I have a malignant brain tumor. But it’s not really on my mind. 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Maybe that was when we first noticed the white streak that now wound through her long dark braid; like Susan Sontag, the most pretentious of us said. Verge Fiction: Model Organisms 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z In her final decade, Susan Sontag wrote more than 17,000 emails, now accessible at the University of California in Los Angeles. New Email Archive Tool to Sift Literary Legacies 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z It is as if Susan Sontag had recovered an ancestral duchy. Can Politico make Brussels sexy? | Gideon Lewis-Kraus 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Susan Sontag defined science fiction as “the imagination of disaster”; she might have been describing the mind of a sports fan. The Best Sports Writing of TIME's Richard Corliss 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z Susan Sontag wrote of how seeing images of great tragedy and conflict repeatedly could “anesthetize the vision and deaden the conscience.” Fact and Fiction in Modern Photography 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z “Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick,” Susan Sontag famously wrote in “Illness as Metaphor.” Lost in Transition After Cancer 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z Critic Susan Sontag says, “To me the direction of the actors in ‘Virginia Woolf’ is brilliant. Newsweek's 1966 Profile of Mike Nichols: Director as Star Ms. Gordimer was co-founder of the majority-black Congress of South African Writers and counted as her closest friends such intellectuals as Edward Said and Susan Sontag. Nadine Gordimer, Nobel laureate, exposed toll of South Africa’s apartheid As Susan Sontag famously argued in her Illness as Metaphor, certain bodily conditions have historically been associated with failings of moral character. Doctors can be fat-shamers too 2014-03-24T00:00:00Z During her first encounter with cancer, Susan Sontag described a tumor as a “demonic pregnancy.” Raw Data: A Tumor, the Embryo’s Evil Twin 2014-03-17T20:26:20Z I was intrigued by this Susan Sontag quote that someone I follow retweeted. What Do IQ Tests Test?: Interview with Psychologist W. Joel Schneider 2014-02-03T15:11:28Z In dance photography, Annie Leibovitz became a pivotal influence when I worked with her for three years as a research and production assistant on “Women,” the book she co-authored with Susan Sontag. India Ink: Where Dance and Textiles Meet 2013-12-17T06:57:19Z The last time they were in financial peril, in 1989, a Wall Street Journal article about the store caught the attention of the publisher Robert Rodale, who happened to be a Susan Sontag fan. At St. Mark?s Bookshop, Killer Rent and a Petition 2011-09-17T04:22:09Z At times, she is the literary critic, contextualizing our relationship to pain through Susan Sontag, Michel Foucault, Emily Dickinson and the Bible. Where It Hurts 2010-08-27T15:04:00Z She attended the San Francisco Art Institute in her teens, but was gradually drawn to film, and went on to study film criticism under Susan Sontag at Columbia University in New York. History maker 2010-03-08T05:34:00Z |
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