| 单词 | Sontag |
| 例句 | Interestingly, Sontag also saw the photographer as a kind of flaneur. Unreal cities 2011-02-24T11:40:04Z 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 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 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 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 “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 By contrast, Sontag pointedly called the attack a “monstrous dose of reality,” and enjoined Americans to be wary of the violence that was probably going to be perpetrated in their name. Dread, War and Ambivalence: Literature Since the Towers Fell 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z “Many of the apparently rebarbative aspects of Sontag’s personality are clarified in light of the alcoholic family system,” he writes. In ‘Sontag,’ the Author’s Myth Takes Center Stage 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z It may even explain her guilt about phoning the friends and relations of Sendak, Updike and Sontag to discuss the most brutal days of their lives. Review: In ‘The Violet Hour,’ Great Writers Facing the Inevitable 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z On the screen, journals and writing are animated, which is pleasing to watch while Angelos' two Sontags bring the words vividly to life. Review: Susan Sontag is doubled in new play homage 2013-06-07T00:11:08Z “I wanted to take note cards with me,” she laughed, adding that Ms. Sontag was “so charming and so nice.” Annie Leibovitz’s Work on ‘Women’ Is Never Done 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Sontag’s “Notes” attempts to define a certain aesthetic sensibility—an earthy zest for artifice. The Best-Dressed Men at the Met Gala 2019: Risking Foolishness, Arriving at Defiant Good Taste 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z 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 Sontag, who died in 2004, argued that photographs like those taken by Evans turn anguish into art, possibly limiting and lessening response to the suffering of others. 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 Ms. Kaplan traces how, for Sontag, “much of her own power and prestige in the United States — her aura — was connected to what she learned, then learned to transmit, from France.” Books of The Times: ?Dreaming in French,? by Alice Kaplan 2012-04-03T21:57:00Z Sontag wrote movingly of the anguish experienced by cancer patients in a culture where a harrowing disease is also associated with shame. The Trouble With Autism in Novels 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z 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 “For me, it’s important not to see these things as a given,” Mr. Sontag concluded. Special Report: Fashion: Presentations Reflect Berlin's Artistic Mode 2011-03-10T08:30:50Z “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 The initial idea for a book of photographs about women was Ms. Sontag’s, whom Ms. Leibovitz met in 1989 while taking her photograph. Annie Leibovitz’s Work on ‘Women’ Is Never Done 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Sontag herself was treated for cancer and observed the destructive inclination to view the disease beyond its physical reality and instead as a metaphorical “diminution of the self”. Three Billboards' portrayal of dwarfism is reductive and ableist, and I would know | Eva Squire 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z Sontag concluded that the truest way to portray illness was without metaphor, and it might seem that Bettelheim was writing in the metaphor-free space of observational science. The Trouble With Autism in Novels 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z 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 “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 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 First published in the New York Review of Books in 1978 and ’79, the extended essay on how society frames illness was written after Sontag’s struggle with Stage 4 breast cancer in 1975. Perspective | The virus caused more than a pandemic. It set us all ablaze. 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z We encounter Sontag as a series of masks, motifs, symptoms and symbols, with her biographer presenting a set of master keys that might explain her behavior. In ‘Sontag,’ the Author’s Myth Takes Center Stage 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z 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 “As you might remember, when Sontag came on the scene with ‘Notes on “Camp”,’ she was willing to take down the pieties of the old guard in service of a new movement,” Mr. Micah said. The Drift Wants You to ‘Examine Your Ideas’ 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z 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 She seeks to capture Bouvier, Sontag and Ms. Davis at what she calls “that existential threshold where you start to see what you can do with what you’ve been given.” Books of The Times: ?Dreaming in French,? by Alice Kaplan 2012-04-03T21:57:00Z In “Persona,” a mute patient and a talkative nurse circle each other in what Sontag also described as “the duel between two mythical parts of a single self.” Review: Elisabeth Moss at All Angles in ‘Queen of Earth’ 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z 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 “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 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 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 That King writes about these things while alluding to Sontag and Updike and Penelope and Odysseus without once seeming like she is otherwise slumming is part of her achievement. ‘Tacky’ Finds the Joy in Bad Taste 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z 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 Sontag, of course counterpointing, noted that “its most obvious trait is assertiveness of one kind or another.” Review | In the loopily expansive ‘Figure It Out,’ Wayne Koestenbaum ponders everything from Robert Rauschenberg’s shoes to the notion of the line 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z “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 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 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 Bergman’s theme, Susan Sontag has suggested, is doubling. L.A. Opera lets Ingmar Bergman's film 'Persona' sing 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z Casting a scornful glance at her younger self, the older Sontag dryly retorts, “There are too few of them anyway!” | 'Sontag: Reborn': Moe Angelos?s ?Sontag: Reborn? in Under the Radar - Review 2012-01-08T21:53:50Z As Sontag saw it: "In place of hermeneutics we need an erotics of art." John Sutherland's top 10 books about books 2010-12-30T10:36:30Z Susan Sontag’s “Duet for Cannibals,” which she wrote and directed, fit both categories. Susan Sontag’s Mind Games 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z But he also positions his biography in a curious way, by using one of Sontag’s most famous ideas against her. In ‘Sontag,’ the Author’s Myth Takes Center Stage 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Sontag and Wolfe were always haggling for more — not necessarily more money, which they usually didn’t get, but more time, more favors, more backing in public and private. ArtsBeat: The Mostly Good Old Days: Boris Kachka Talks About ‘Hothouse’ 2013-07-31T16:34:41Z 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 Many of the intellectual heavyweights are here, from Hannah Arendt to Susan Sontag to James Baldwin. New & Noteworthy 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z 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 When Sontag wrote that Kiš's work "preserves the honour of literature", she meant that he had defended literature by refusing to play the roles bestowed on him, the dissident or Yugoslav or Jewish writer. The Lute and the Scars by Danilo Kis – review 2012-12-14T08:59:01Z 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 Rieff put Sontag to work, drafting the book reviews that appeared under his name, and even, Moser argues, ghostwriting his study “Freud: The Mind of the Moralist,” this biography’s juiciest claim. In ‘Sontag,’ the Author’s Myth Takes Center Stage 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z But if I’m going to do that, it’s important to balance it out by reading great critical stylists: Sontag, Baldwin, Barthes, Hilton Als. Why Maggie Nelson Is Drawn to Certain Autobiographies 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z 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 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 Ms. Davis arrived six years after Sontag, for the 1963-64 academic year. Books of The Times: ?Dreaming in French,? by Alice Kaplan 2012-04-03T21:57:00Z "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 This unnamed friend is, as Sontag was, a critic of illness culture. Sigrid Nunez Follows ‘The Friend’ With a Sorrowful, Funny Novel About Death 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z Sontag, as a critic, craved both high and low art. 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 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 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 Sontag’s salient characteristic was her insatiable, wide-ranging intellectual curiosity. Critic’s Notebook: The Tribeca Film Festival Begins Its 13th Season 2014-04-15T16:18:57Z 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 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 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 “I want to describe not what it is really like to emigrate to the kingdom of the ill and live there, but the punitive and sentimental fantasies concocted about that situation,” Sontag wrote. Perspective | The virus caused more than a pandemic. It set us all ablaze. 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z He was less troubled by this prospect than Sontag, whose prose, in the final pages of “On Photography,” ripples with alarm. Riff: On (Digital) Photography: Sontag, 34 Years Later 2011-05-08T05:30:17Z But both Murdoch and Sontag were alluding to, and working within, a well-known polemical formula from antiquity. Against “Against [X]” 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z Sontag wanted a serious film, but I don’t see how anyone could miss, under all the buffoonery and juvenile joking, a furious sense of outrage. The Half-Century Anniversary of 'Dr. Strangelove' 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z This is not a matter of copying but rather a symptom of the visual information glut that alarmed Sontag. Movie Review: ‘Samsara,’ a Documentary Directed by Ron Fricke 2012-08-23T22:26:32Z 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 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 Years after Sontag published “Illness as Metaphor,” her son, David Rieff, wrote about how his mother never reconciled with death, how the fear of death haunted her throughout her life. Perspective | The virus caused more than a pandemic. It set us all ablaze. 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z 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 “I don’t like being called a ‘lady writer,’ Norman,” Sontag went on. Norman Mailer’s Snarling Encounter with Feminism, Restaged in Trump’s America 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z 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 But Ms. Angelos’s text captures the inquisitive, sometimes self-lacerating tone of Sontag’s writing, as well as the daily patterns of her life, through mundane details like the lists of books she intends to read. | 'Sontag: Reborn': Moe Angelos?s ?Sontag: Reborn? in Under the Radar - Review 2012-01-08T21:53:50Z 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 In her essay "Illness as Metaphor," Sontag argued for "clarity, rational thought, and medical information" when confronting disease — as opposed to romantic mythologizing. In 'The Violet Hour,' Katie Roiphe looks at five great writers shuffling off this mortal coil 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Sontag rather describes it as "a sensibility that revels in artifice, stylization, theatricalization, irony, playfulness, and exaggeration rather than content." If entertaining is a domestic performance, let Thanksgiving be camp 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z Susan Sontag attends to the genre of art world “happenings.” ‘Art in America 1945-1970,’ Edited by Jed Perl 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z 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 The book defied the tradition, Ms. Sontag wrote, of photographing women for their beauty rather than their character. Annie Leibovitz’s Work on ‘Women’ Is Never Done 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Hefty both in size and in interpretive bandwidth, “Sontag” is a landmark biography, the first major reintroduction of an incomparable literary heavyweight to the public since her death 15 years ago. A Big New Biography of Susan Sontag Digs to Find the Person Beneath the Icon 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z 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 Here's Sontag, extolling experience over interpretation, barhopping in Seoul and fighting with the phone company. 'America the Philosophical': Deep thinking in the land of the free 2012-06-06T21:19:10Z In “Regarding the Pain of Others,” published in 2003, a year before she died, Sontag reflected on photographs of atrocities. New Books Update Our Thinking About Cruelty 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z Ms. Sontag encouraged her to tackle a complicated and personal series. Annie Leibovitz’s Work on ‘Women’ Is Never Done 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Moser saw a copy of the book in which Rieff wrote a personal dedication to Sontag, crediting her as a co-author 40 years later. A Big New Biography of Susan Sontag Digs to Find the Person Beneath the Icon 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z The designer Michael Sontag also chose an installation over a runway show for his eponymous label this season. Special Report: Fashion: Presentations Reflect Berlin's Artistic Mode 2011-03-10T08:30:50Z “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 To add to the shelf, there is now the authorized biography, “Sontag: Her Life and Work,” by Benjamin Moser, a book as handsome, provocative and troubled as its subject. In ‘Sontag,’ the Author’s Myth Takes Center Stage 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z 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 Susan Sontag looks like an ordinary, bland young woman of the period. Art Review: Warhol?s Silent Film Portraits 2010-12-23T22:39:01Z This is the first biography of Sontag to be published since her death, in 2004.—R.A. Books to Watch Out For: August 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z 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 “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 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 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 “Things are campy,” Sontag wrote, “not when they become old — but when we become less involved in them, and can enjoy, instead of be frustrated by, the failure of the attempt.” Notes on cocktail camp: From tiki to the boozy juice box, a celebration of the unstuffy drink 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z 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 This was clearly Sontag's no-holds-barred approach to her multiple cancer diagnoses. In 'The Violet Hour,' Katie Roiphe looks at five great writers shuffling off this mortal coil 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z If Sontag had gone down two, the swing would have been 12 imps and Diamond would have won by the imp scored on Board 64. Bridge: Photo Finish in the Spingold at Summer Nationals 2010-08-01T21:55:00Z 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 Since the 1970s, when the essays in Sontag’s book were written, the global glut of images has grown almost beyond measure. Movie Review: ‘Samsara,’ a Documentary Directed by Ron Fricke 2012-08-23T22:26:32Z 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 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 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 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 These earlier survivals also fed Sontag's fierce determination to fight the blood cancer with which she was diagnosed in 2004. In 'The Violet Hour,' Katie Roiphe looks at five great writers shuffling off this mortal coil 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z No Dickens, no Jane Austen, none of the classics — no Bellow, no Roth, no Sontag. Reading the Fine Print 2012-12-14T05:00:00Z 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 That’s a defensible position, but it would have been better to take it head-on, the way Ms. Sontag would have. Susan Sontag Is Recalled in an HBO Documentary 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z 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 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 “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 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 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 After all, in the same essay, Sontag also noted, ”One must distinguish between naive and deliberate Camp. ‘American Horror Story’ Recap: Lady Gaga Checks In 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z But while the words are Sontag’s, they were confided to her journal long before she became a celebrated critic and novelist. Theater Review: ‘Sontag: Reborn,’ at New York Theater Workshop 2013-06-07T02:00:01Z Sontag, however, was not the only figure in 1965 to flip that phrase around. 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 Her childhood was a “long prison sentence,” she wrote, marked by the death of her father and dislocation as the family moved west hoping to find a more hospitable climate for Sontag’s asthma. In ‘Sontag,’ the Author’s Myth Takes Center Stage 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z 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 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 Sontag was alert to the ways reality can be distorted — in photographs, for example, or with metaphorical language, falsifications that numb our responses. In ‘Sontag,’ the Author’s Myth Takes Center Stage 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z As Ms. Sontag worked through the long history of outlaw art, she made herself, and her reactions, part of the story. Cultural Studies: Thomas Piketty, the Economist Behind ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’ Is the Latest Overnight Intellectual Sensation 2014-04-25T23:51:03Z 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 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 “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 He valorizes the intellectual seriousness of Sontag, and of the poet and translator Richard Howard, but also confesses his attraction to idleness and lassitude. Wayne Koestenbaum’s Cerebral, Smutty Essays Playfully Disobey the Rules 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z Ms. Sontag was annoyed because the poet ignored her by reading a newspaper, though it was an attempt to make Ms. Sontag talk to the star-struck young photographer he had brought to meet her. A Story of Love and Obsession 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z 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 Grumpy Susan Sontag came over and hated Tangier. The Madness of Queen Jane 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z Nor is there, to invoke another Sontag title, any inclination to treat this illness as a metaphor. Arts & Leisure: All-Star Cast for Steven Soderbergh?s ?Contagion? 2011-08-26T21:36:34Z 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 When the young Sontag writes of a tedious night with her stepfather, then contemplates erasing the sentence, she decides against it. | 'Sontag: Reborn': Moe Angelos?s ?Sontag: Reborn? in Under the Radar - Review 2012-01-08T21:53:50Z 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 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 I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. Talk: The Devil in Marina Abramovic 2012-06-16T03:00:07Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Camp, Sontag continues, is "the spirit of extravagance," as well as "a kind of love, a love for human nature," which "relishes, rather than judges." LGBT+ history: The story of camp, from Little Richard to Lil Nas X 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z 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 “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 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 Politically Sontag was de-institutionalising literary criticism – tearing it away from the campus. John Sutherland's top 10 books about books 2010-12-30T10:36:30Z This second group of items, in quoting the first, is an example of “camping,” or camp that is aware of itself—which, Sontag noted, “is usually less satisfying.” The Met Gala 2019: It May Not Have Been Camp, But It Was Fashion 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z 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 “Sontag” reads like an epic quest, offering a deep and thorough portrait of the intellectual giant that’s both dishy and enlightening. Review | The 10 books to read in September 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z 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 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 “We consume images at an ever faster rate,” Sontag observed, and the more we do, the more “images consume reality.” Riff: On (Digital) Photography: Sontag, 34 Years Later 2011-05-08T05:30:17Z 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 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 “I write partly in order to change myself,” Sontag once remarked, explaining her penchant for famously reversing her most public stances. In ‘Sontag,’ the Author’s Myth Takes Center Stage 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z What was wrong with intellectuals, such as Sontag, kicking off their shoes and dancing to such lively music? 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 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 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 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 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 “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 Sontag assumed that the missing club honors were split, one in each defender’s hand, not both in one hand. Bridge: He Misplaced the Club Honors, So Misguessed the Diamonds 2010-07-23T23:24:00Z The archetype of the modern intellectual rock star was probably Ms. Sontag. Cultural Studies: Thomas Piketty, the Economist Behind ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’ Is the Latest Overnight Intellectual Sensation 2014-04-25T23:51:03Z Susan Sontag dedicated “Notes on Camp” to camp’s patron saint, Oscar Wilde. A Few Notes on Grumbling 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Sontag wrote because she saw it as “a way of paying attention to the world.” Watch the Trailer for the Upcoming HBO Documentary Regarding Susan Sontag 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z Much as she adored high culture, Sontag felt compelled to explain this sea change in the American sensibility to its mandarins. She Made Thinking Exciting: The Life and Work of Susan Sontag 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z “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 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 The portions on Bouvier are the most fun and easiest to read, whereas the sections on Sontag and Davis tend to bog down in heady literary and philosophical theory. 'Dreaming in French': the transformative power of Paris 2012-04-25T20:12:09Z 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 And Ms. Sontag herself, with her striking good looks, heavy mane of hair and gravelly voice, is a presence throughout, having been among the most filmed and photographed of serious writers. Susan Sontag Is Recalled in an HBO Documentary 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z 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 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 Sontag, who died in 2004, is considered one of the most influential writers of her time, with works like "Against Interpretation," "Illness as Metaphor" and the 1992 novel, "The Volcano Lover." Review: Susan Sontag is doubled in new play homage 2013-06-07T00:11:08Z Unlike Sontag, he "did not like the idea of prolonging life at all costs," Roiphe reports admiringly. In 'The Violet Hour,' Katie Roiphe looks at five great writers shuffling off this mortal coil 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z From Sontag, he learned how style can confer authority; from Barthes, how to shrug it off. Wayne Koestenbaum’s Cerebral, Smutty Essays Playfully Disobey the Rules 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z 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 The young Sontag, in Ms. Angelos’s quietly fervid performance, has the courage of her convictions without quite yet knowing what they are. | 'Sontag: Reborn': Moe Angelos?s ?Sontag: Reborn? in Under the Radar - Review 2012-01-08T21:53:50Z Her ready-mixed metaphor "I turned the volume down on myself; I became less" is unflatteringly followed by Sontag's evolving lines on "Love as incorporation … as immolation of the self." Unmastered by Katherine Angel – review 2012-08-10T21:55:05Z Sontag, who spent 1957-8 in Paris, was, at 24, just a bit older when she went abroad. Books of The Times: ?Dreaming in French,? by Alice Kaplan 2012-04-03T21:57:00Z 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 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 ‘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 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 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 wrote that “the painter constructs, the photographer discloses.” New Portraits by Chantal Joffe at the Jewish Museum 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 Her narrators are prone to quoting Barthes or Sontag or deconstructing art-house cinema, but her sentences are always airy and streamlined, full of wit and candor. Locked in a Creative Struggle, With Rilke as Her Guide 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 “Camp is the modern dandyism,” Sontag writes, in note forty-five, which I don’t quite follow. The Best-Dressed Men at the Met Gala 2019: Risking Foolishness, Arriving at Defiant Good Taste 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z And Sontag wrote that “Dr. Strangelove is nihilism for the masses, a philistine nihilism.” The Half-Century Anniversary of 'Dr. Strangelove' 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z 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 “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 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 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 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 “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 If Sontag had copied Greco’s line, he would have escaped for down one and lost only 7 imps to win by 4. Bridge: Photo Finish in the Spingold at Summer Nationals 2010-08-01T21:55:00Z 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 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 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 They also present an implicit dare to audiences far more inured to seeing bodies in pain, to use Sontag’s construction, than bodies that are naked. ‘The Hateful Eight’ and ‘The Revenant’ bring the pain, but what do we gain? 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z 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 One delightful detail is that Sontag and her friend, Merrill, arrived two hours early and sat in their car a little ways from the house, rehearsing their encounter with the “god in exile.” Thomas Mann Lived Here 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Sontag’s story is the largest cage of paradoxes. Review: In ‘The Violet Hour,’ Great Writers Facing the Inevitable 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z 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 With her crisp, quiet, earnest delivery, Ms. Angelos is surprisingly effective as the teenage Sontag, who entered the University of California, Berkeley at 16. Theater Review: ‘Sontag: Reborn,’ at New York Theater Workshop 2013-06-07T02:00:01Z 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 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 I found it too diagnostically minded, however, and I’m not convinced by his claim that Sontag’s enduring importance lies in her myth, not her work. Times Critics Discuss Their Year in Books, From New Talents to Old Favorites 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z “You’re the only person in the world who can call me ‘Baby’ and get away with it,” the book has Sontag telling Straus. Books Of the Times: In ‘Hothouse,’ Boris Kachka Tells the Farrar, Straus Story 2013-08-08T20:34:15Z Moser spent seven years writing this biography of Sontag, whose essays and criticism made her one of the leading public intellectuals of the 20th century. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z But in 2004, when doctors told Sontag she had a particularly incorrigible form of blood cancer, her sense of exceptionalism deserted her, and that upset her terribly. Review: In ‘The Violet Hour,’ Great Writers Facing the Inevitable 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z 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 mines the tragic, comic and complex forces that coincided to create Sontag the icon, as well as all the trademarks of her persona, such as that skunk-do. A Big New Biography of Susan Sontag Digs to Find the Person Beneath the Icon 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z 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 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 Sontag, not typically one to downplay her literary achievements or to emphasize her physical attributes, probably got that right. A Big New Biography of Susan Sontag Digs to Find the Person Beneath the Icon 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z I just wish Susan Sontag were still around. Bringing Guantánamo to Park Avenue 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z Still, in these early years Sontag fluctuates between self-assurance and self-doubt — perhaps both necessary ingredients in the process of forging an identity. | 'Sontag: Reborn': Moe Angelos?s ?Sontag: Reborn? in Under the Radar - Review 2012-01-08T21:53:50Z The stylist dyed all but one stripe of Sontag’s hair black. A Big New Biography of Susan Sontag Digs to Find the Person Beneath the Icon 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z In Sontag’s view, camp is exemplified by the exaggerated and artificial and is important because it “neutralizes moral indignation, sponsors playfulness.” What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z The older Sontag then cuts in to offer a more considered appreciation of the process. | 'Sontag: Reborn': Moe Angelos?s ?Sontag: Reborn? in Under the Radar - Review 2012-01-08T21:53:50Z Moser takes a deep dive into Sontag’s personal life and her work, exploring published and unpublished writings, and lingering frequently to analyze — and occasionally psychoanalyze — Sontag’s emotional, intellectual and social influences. A Big New Biography of Susan Sontag Digs to Find the Person Beneath the Icon 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z In “Illness as Metaphor,” Sontag wrote about diseases — cancer and tuberculosis — that took their toll over relatively long periods, so the experience of being ill lasted months or years. Perspective | The virus caused more than a pandemic. It set us all ablaze. 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z 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 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 She described prepping for her first dinner date with the formidable writer by reading two of Ms. Sontag’s books and The New York Times front to back. Annie Leibovitz’s Work on ‘Women’ Is Never Done 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 In a footnote Sontag says, “Bruce was the only person I knew whom I could invite to a hakka — fried intestines and toenails.” Books of The Times: In His Own Words, a Singular Man?s Double Life 2011-02-17T22:58:45Z “I think she writes the most beautiful sentences, more beautiful sentences than any living American writer,” Sontag once wrote. ‘The Dolphin Letters’ Shine Light on a Famous Marital and Literary Scandal 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z But Sontag’s sentimental and sexual education took some unusual turns, even as her intellectual maturity proceeded at a breathtaking pace. Theater Review: ‘Sontag: Reborn,’ at New York Theater Workshop 2013-06-07T02:00:01Z 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 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 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 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 Her pattern of withholding attention kindled an anxious, supplicating affection in her daughter, and a lifelong taste, Sontag wrote in her diary, for “weak, unhappy, confused, charming women.” In ‘Sontag,’ the Author’s Myth Takes Center Stage 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z 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 Is there in him a touch of Sontag’s son, the nonfiction writer and policy analyst David Rieff, whom Nunez once dated? Sigrid Nunez Follows ‘The Friend’ With a Sorrowful, Funny Novel About Death 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z She also appears on video as the older Sontag, chain-smoking and riffling through the old journals, casting amused, intrigued or dismayed glances at her younger self and interjecting annotation as needed. Theater Review: ‘Sontag: Reborn,’ at New York Theater Workshop 2013-06-07T02:00:01Z Perhaps Sontag could have told us what it meant that designers treated this evening as a kind of Saturnalia, and used it to revel in American cheese. The Best-Dressed Men at the Met Gala 2019: Risking Foolishness, Arriving at Defiant Good Taste 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z I wanted to know more about Hardwick’s sustaining friendships with McCarthy, Sontag, Rich, Bishop and Arendt — legends whose names appear often, but mostly in outline. The Cutting Mind and Romantic Heart of Elizabeth Hardwick 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z Sontag was writing primarily about still photographs and paintings, but her essay touched on perhaps the most enduring and disquieting impulse of cinema, one that’s on particularly extravagant display this season. ‘The Hateful Eight’ and ‘The Revenant’ bring the pain, but what do we gain? 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z “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 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 Sontag once accused Albee of “sensationalism masking as cultural exposé.” Susan Sontag’s Mind Games 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z 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 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 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 The “theory” Sontag is referring to—how Aristotle countered Plato’s idea that art was useless by suggesting that its true utility might be in inciting and placating our emotions—is, of course, limiting. Music to Forget Yourself With 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Sontag described camp as a “private code,” and said that to speak about it is to betray it, that the moment one tries to pin camp down it starts to change and wriggle away. The Met Gala 2019: It May Not Have Been Camp, But It Was Fashion 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z You’re left with the feeling that Ms. Kates was drawn to Ms. Sontag as a personality and a sexual and political symbol but didn’t really take seriously the work she devoted her life to. Susan Sontag Is Recalled in an HBO Documentary 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z 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 Not for her the stately remove of the American intellectual, the retiring panel-dweller — never mind the risk to her neck; Sontag was in Sarajevo during the Bosnian War and Berlin as the wall fell. In ‘Sontag,’ the Author’s Myth Takes Center Stage 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z “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 Sontag also writes, however, that the camp sensibility is "disengaged, depoliticized," and that it emphasises the "decorative . . . at the expense of content." LGBT+ history: The story of camp, from Little Richard to Lil Nas X 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z With more print periodicals disappearing every year, the kind of everyday confrontation with contemporary social problems that Sontag took for granted is becoming rarer. The Getty's Engaged Observers will always be eye-opening 2010-09-16T16:43:00Z 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 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 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 “His book has an interesting, jumpy, adversarial energy, with its author caught up in the drama and not so subtly taking sides in the clashes surrounding Sontag,” our critic Parul Sehgal writes. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Within the next year Sontag uses her as one of her examples of camp. He?s the Shade of Martha Graham 2011-03-25T14:24:56Z Sontag talked about it when she described art becoming “an instrument of ritual,” setting itself loose from meaning. Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran Up the Ante, and 13 More New Songs 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z 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 His book has an interesting, jumpy, adversarial energy, with its author caught up in the drama and not so subtly taking sides in the clashes surrounding Sontag. In ‘Sontag,’ the Author’s Myth Takes Center Stage 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Those journals exposed a side of Sontag that hadn’t really been visible in her aggressively mandarin, intellectual work, a side that had doubts and setbacks and even a strong sense of humor. Joan Didion gets out of town in 'South and West' — and finds only fragments 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Sontag called Paris “the alternative capital of my imagination,” and when she died in 2004, her son, David Rieff, with no explicit instruction from her, took her to Paris to be buried. Books of The Times: ?Dreaming in French,? by Alice Kaplan 2012-04-03T21:57:00Z 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 “Camp sees everything in quotation marks,” Sontag wrote. Perspective | Drag queens are not the ones sexualizing drag story hour 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z 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 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 Rereading his books in bulk recently, I found many winning moments, yet I was reminded of the friend who told me that the library in hell will be comprised solely of books Sontag has championed. A Biography of W.G. Sebald, Who Transformed His Borrowings Into Lasting Art 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z 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 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 Gunn remains interested only in pursing what Sontag calls “the luminousness of the thing in itself.” Music to Forget Yourself With 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z 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 But Schreiber, a Berlin-based art and literary critic, is wary of the ways in which Sontag created a mythology for herself. Books to Watch Out For: August 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z 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 “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 Sontag is the author of “Flavors of Oakland: A Cookbook in 20 Stories” and divides his time between California and New York. To this Black Lives Matter co-founder, activism begins in the kitchen 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z “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 She has also been named the team’s passion player of the game nine times this season, tied with Sontag for the team lead. What is a passion play? UCLA reveals the secret behind its March Madness surge 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Sontag had four points, four rebounds and three steals, and Iwuala had four rebounds and two assists in less than seven minutes. UCLA's freshmen living up to the hype, carry Bruins into Pac-12 title game 2023-03-04T05:00:00Z 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 The producer of the project, Gabrielle Tana, has shared with Screen Daily that “Sontag” will have a meta spin, with documentary footage of Stewart preparing to portray Sontag woven into the film. Kristen Stewart is set to star as iconic feminist writer Susan Sontag in a biopic 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 “If you see your stats and they’re not good, sometimes it can be a little frustrating,” Sontag said, “but to see your passion plays, that really perks me up.” What is a passion play? UCLA reveals the secret behind its March Madness surge 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z 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 So with apologies to Sontag, here are my notes on TikTok: TikTok's addictive anti-aesthetic has already conquered culture 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z 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 Mr. Godard’s unpredictable iconoclasm appealed to Sontag, who noted his “prodigal energies, his evident risk-taking, the quirky individualism.” Jean-Luc Godard, rule-breaking master of French cinema, dies at 91 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z While Sontag’s ideas were always brilliant, “she just had no ear, Elizabeth said.” Review | Darryl Pinckney’s new book is a dishy tale of literary Manhattan 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z 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 Arbus used her camera, Sontag wrote, as a “kind of passport that annihilates moral boundaries and social inhibitions, freeing the photographer from any responsibility toward the people photographed.” Review | Diane Arbus was accused of exploiting ‘freaks.’ We misunderstood her art. 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z 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 Sontag wrote that Mr. Godard helped create a new language of cinema with movies that were “both achieved and chaotic, ‘work in progress’ which resists easy admiration.” Jean-Luc Godard, rule-breaking master of French cinema, dies at 91 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z In a piece about oat milk on Serious Eats, Elazar Sontag shares insight from pastry expert and cookbook author Stella Parks. How to choose the right nondairy milk for your recipes 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z 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 According to Sontag, Arbus created “a world where everyone is an alien, hopelessly alienated.” Review | Diane Arbus was accused of exploiting ‘freaks.’ We misunderstood her art. 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z 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 Sontag noted that “homosexuals” were the self-appointed arbiters of camp, which was fitting, as camp was at once a private code and a set of “flamboyant mannerisms susceptible of a double interpretation.” 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 They are breaking through, which is forcing audiences to grapple more urgently with Sontag’s idea about impotence. Perspective | Why did it take Ukraine to remind us of war photography’s relevance? 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z 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 While Sontag’s description from 60 years ago mostly holds up, there’s a notable exception. Perspective | How Sinema subverts the radical conventions of queer politics 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z Its greatest practitioners — Montaigne, Barthes, Sontag — recognized its discursive potential and used it to contend with their own competing ideas. Emily Ratajkowski explores her growing pains in ‘My Body’ 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z 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 Yet she was a force in American letters, prompting Sontag to state, “I think she writes the most beautiful sentences, more beautiful sentences than any living American writer.” Review: Long overshadowed, Elizabeth Hardwick has a biography. She deserves even better 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z “To possess the world in the form of images is, precisely, to re-experience the unreality and remoteness of the real,” Sontag concludes. 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 Here we see the method of “Everybody,” framed as an extended conversation between the author and her sources, in which De Sade blurs into Reich, who blurs into Sontag, and back again. Review: Where Malcolm X meets the Marquis de Sade: Olivia Laing's intense new essays on freedom 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z 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 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 “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 But “often the money didn’t trickle down as it was intended” to practice groups that employ physicians, Sontag said. Young ER doctors risk their lives on the pandemic’s front lines. But they struggle to find jobs. 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z 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 About 2,500 new emergency medicine doctors enter the workforce each year, Sontag said. Young ER doctors risk their lives on the pandemic’s front lines. But they struggle to find jobs. 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z "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 Interpretation turns the world as it is, “the world,” as Sontag puts it, into “this world,” the dimmer one of our making. Philip Glass and 'Einstein on the Beach': How one opera changed everything 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z 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 Modern disease metaphors are all cheap shots, Sontag also warns us in “Illness as Metaphor.” Beethoven for pandemic times: How Opus 132 is journey through illness and healing 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z The year’s biography prize went to Benjamin Moser for his “authoritatively constructed” book Sontag: Her Life and Work while Jericho Brown’s The Tradition won for poetry. Colson Whitehead and This American Life among Pulitzer 2020 winners 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z 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 Melissa Sontag Broudo, the campaign’s general counsel, said the focus on Kampia loses sight of the women at the forefront of the organization. An effort to decriminalize prostitution in D.C. faces unlikely opposition: Local sex worker advocates 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z 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 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 When I was done reading, I felt sad for Sontag — primarily for her difficulties in forging close relationships, but I also felt a little queasy at the attention lavished on her shortcomings. Just in time for the holidays, match 4 biographies with their ideal bibliophile recipient 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z “If we want to bring it to the next level of actually changing laws, we need those resources,” said Sontag Broudo, a longtime defense attorney and sex worker activist. An effort to decriminalize prostitution in D.C. faces unlikely opposition: Local sex worker advocates 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z 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 I met Susan Sontag once, at a party. The Art of Dying 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z In his review of Benjamin Moser’s new book, “Sontag: Her Life and Work,” Alexander Chee notes that “her biography must also be something of an intellectual and political history of the 20th century United States.” 5 essential book events for the week ahead. Karaoke included 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z Moser draws heavily from Sontag’s many notebooks and journals, and if the mercilessly self-critical excerpts are any indication, she wrote down her private thoughts mostly when she was depressed. Just in time for the holidays, match 4 biographies with their ideal bibliophile recipient 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Lispector, like Sontag, lived inside a myth that fed her even as she fed it. Review: A biographer gently pulls back the curtain on Susan Sontag 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z In addition to her graduate work, and caring for David, Sontag helped Rieff with the book he was writing, which was to become the classic “Freud: The Mind of the Moralist.” Susan Sontag and the Unholy Practice of Biography 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Lawrence County Sheriff Lessie Butler says a minister discovered the grave Wednesday while checking on his property in Sontag. Man’s body found in shallow grave in Mississippi 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Moser’s book is based on Sontag’s archives and pulls in hundreds of interviews with her contemporaries. 5 essential book events for the week ahead. Karaoke included 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z Although Sontag dismissed the poster collector as someone engaged in “emotional and moral tourism,” there’s something humbling and impossible about the pursuit. How Posters Became Art 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z Moser’s biography of Sontag is an education in Sontag, but also in what Sontag wanted and why, as well as an education in the worlds that inspired her and fought her. Review: A biographer gently pulls back the curtain on Susan Sontag 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z If Moser’s feelings about Sontag are mixed—he always seems a little awed as well as irked by her—his dislike for Philip Rieff is undiluted. Susan Sontag and the Unholy Practice of Biography 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z “There is a shame as well as shock in looking at the close up of real horror,” Sontag suggested. Is it wrong to look at the harrowing photo of a drowned father and daughter? | Peter Beaumont 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z With prize money increasing and the games becoming more competitive, a growing number of traditional doctors like Sontag are devoting their time to esports injuries. Carpal tunnel, back pain and social anxiety: Inside the injury-plagued world of professional gaming. 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Sontag was especially wary of posters that had been taken out of their context, such as the radical political posters that now adorned people’s living rooms. How Posters Became Art 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z 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 And he drops this bombshell: he claims that Rieff did not write his great book—Sontag did. Susan Sontag and the Unholy Practice of Biography 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z “Today everything exists to end in a photograph” — people place that quotation of hers under their selfies, photos of cupcakes and sunsets, portraits of Sontag herself. Opinion | Why Isn’t Instagram More Witty? 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z 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 Constructed in 1936, it is occupied by a beauty supply store but was originally home to a Sontag drug outlet that included a soda fountain and grill capable of seating 100 patrons. Luxury Art Deco-inspired skyscraper planned for Miracle Mile in Los Angeles 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z Sontag was not in high school when she went, but in college. Review: A biographer gently pulls back the curtain on Susan Sontag 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Certainly, this doesn’t reflect well on Rieff, but it hardly proves that Sontag wrote “The Mind of the Moralist.” Susan Sontag and the Unholy Practice of Biography 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Read this way, Sontag becomes less of an intellectual and more of a motivational speaker. Opinion | Why Isn’t Instagram More Witty? 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z 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 Marks plans to open a cafe and a white table cloth restaurant in the renovated space that he hopes will be named Sontag. Luxury Art Deco-inspired skyscraper planned for Miracle Mile in Los Angeles 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z Sontag purchased her first diary “at the corner of Speedway and Country Club in Tucson.” Review: A biographer gently pulls back the curtain on Susan Sontag 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, he has so thoroughly convinced himself of it that when he quotes from “The Mind of the Moralist” he performs the sleight of hand of saying “she writes” or “Sontag notes.” Susan Sontag and the Unholy Practice of Biography 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Sontag wrote that camp was instrumental to gays’ “integration into society” because it was a “solvent of morality” that “sponsors playfulness” while it also “neutralizes moral indignation.” At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, camp is in the eye of the beholder 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z She has long been known as its unofficial co-author, but the biography says textual and anecdotal evidence shows a then twentysomething Sontag is likely to have been its creator. Susan Sontag is just the latest woman known to have had her work stolen by a man 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z Moser quotes a letter Sontag wrote to her mother, in which she says that she is “in third gear now on the book – working about 10 hours a day on it at least”. Susan Sontag was true author of ex-husband's book, biography claims 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z Sontag, however, prefers to identify a peculiar innocence in the midst of camp’s mockery, as well as a kind of seductiveness. From Susan Sontag to the Met Gala: Jon Savage on the evolution of camp 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z Geniuses are often born to parents afflicted with no such abnormality, and Sontag belongs to this group. 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 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 Sontag: Her Life is based on hundreds of interviews with people who knew her well, including the photographer Annie Leibovitz, said publisher Allen Lane, which releases the book on 17 September. Susan Sontag was true author of ex-husband's book, biography claims 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z And, as Sontag discovered, it can be highly effective. From Susan Sontag to the Met Gala: Jon Savage on the evolution of camp 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z Sontag would later write in a more accessible, though never plain-speaking, manner. Susan Sontag and the Unholy Practice of Biography 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z 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 Today, Sontag’s observations remind us of how objects and works that were déclassé in the 1960s have become part of accepted taste. From Susan Sontag to the Met Gala: Jon Savage on the evolution of camp 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z She does not suppress her glimpses of Sontag when she was not all right—when she was at her most painfully fearful and miserable and impossible. Susan Sontag and the Unholy Practice of Biography 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z 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 Representing what Sontag called “the convertibility of ‘man’ and ‘woman,’” designer Thom Browne contributes a man’s wedding outfit that combines a black tuxedo with a white filmy skirt. Bring on the camp: Met Gala exhibit explores camp in fashion 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z In it, Sontag defines camp as "a seriousness that fails", as "the love of the unnatural" and of the "exaggerated". Four things to expect this week 2019-05-05T04:00:00Z Behind all the glitz of the fashion world’s big fundraiser, the Met Gala, which took place in New York earlier this week, Sontag’s thoughts remain relevant. From Susan Sontag to the Met Gala: Jon Savage on the evolution of camp 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z Sontag was accused of humorlessness, but in fact she was guilty only of high-mindedness. Susan Sontag and the Unholy Practice of Biography 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z This issue of the ‘cultural appropriation’ of camp was addressed by Bolton, who acknowledged the grievance felt by those who believe Sontag downplayed their connection to camp. New York’s Met Museum showcases the power of camp in new exhibition 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z He reread Sontag’s essay and was struck by how relevant it felt. Bring on the camp: Met Gala exhibit explores camp in fashion 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z Sontag speaks here of physical illness and does not speak for those who’ve traveled in the lands of psychosis, in the unreal realms of the mad, of the mentally ill. Review: 'The Collected Schizophrenias' by Esmé Weijun Wang redefines how we think about the illness 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z The publication of Sontag’s frank discussion in Partisan Review, an east coast magazine that shaped intellectual opinion, legitimised gay culture in a way that continues to resonate. From Susan Sontag to the Met Gala: Jon Savage on the evolution of camp 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z But in the sixties Sontag struggled to survive as a writer who didn’t teach. Susan Sontag and the Unholy Practice of Biography 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z 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 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 While we watch reruns of “Law & Order,” Sontag seemingly read every great book ever written. Susan Sontag and the Unholy Practice of Biography 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z 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 Sontag’s achievement was to give a name to an aesthetic that was everywhere yet until then had gone largely unremarked. From Susan Sontag to the Met Gala: Jon Savage on the evolution of camp 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z The early years of Sontag’s marriage to Rieff are the least documented of her life, and they’re a little mysterious, leaving much to the imagination. Susan Sontag and the Unholy Practice of Biography 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Captain Sontag told Susan that if she didn’t stop reading books she would never get married. 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 Sontag believed that a certain passivity was inescapable in spectatorship, and that any image of violence would be tainted by this passive distance. What Does It Mean to Look at This? 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z The tests were designed to expose the sitter, and Sontag was up to the occasion, oscillating between high seriousness, contempt and a wildly mocking grin. From Susan Sontag to the Met Gala: Jon Savage on the evolution of camp 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z The hardest piece of evidence that Moser offers for his thesis is a letter that Sontag wrote to her younger sister, Judith, in 1950, about her exciting new job as Rieff’s research assistant. Susan Sontag and the Unholy Practice of Biography 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Those sentences came back to haunt Sontag as, in the course of the seventies, with the revelation of the abuses committed by the new Communist societies, she separated herself from the far left. The Hunger Artist 2000-02-28T05:00:00Z 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, 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 In 58 paragraphs, Sontag conducted an intuitive yet rigorous examination of a phenomenon that she defined as “a badge of identity among small urban cliques”. From Susan Sontag to the Met Gala: Jon Savage on the evolution of camp 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z Moser’s interviews with contemporaries who knew that Sontag was working on the book don’t prove her authorship, either. Susan Sontag and the Unholy Practice of Biography 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Those were the outer forces—political disappointments, artistic failures—that sapped Sontag’s critical ambitions. The Hunger Artist 2000-02-28T05:00:00Z 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 Some recent scholars of photography have argued with some of Sontag’s assertions in “On Photography.” What Does It Mean to Look at This? 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Sontag herself entered Warhol’s world in the autumn of 1964, sitting for one of his silent black-and-white “screen tests” at his Manhattan studio, the Factory. From Susan Sontag to the Met Gala: Jon Savage on the evolution of camp 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z “Indeed, many of the apparently rebarbative aspects of Sontag’s personality are clarified in light of the alcoholic family system, as it was later understood,” Moser writes, and he goes on: Susan Sontag and the Unholy Practice of Biography 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Not surprisingly, Sontag finds fiction easier to produce than essays. The Hunger Artist 2000-02-28T05:00:00Z 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 Sontag is, to Linfield, a “brilliant skeptic,” and Linfield finds this a much less attractive persona than the one of the “smitten lover,” which is what she deems the film critic Pauline Kael. What Does It Mean to Look at This? 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z 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 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 But, whatever Sontag’s new embrace of reality, the person who wrote the essays is still in attendance, with the result that the realism of “In America” is overlaid with plenty of formalism. The Hunger Artist 2000-02-28T05:00:00Z "It is difficult to overstate how much writing about Sontag is concerned with her appearance," Dean notes. The women who wielded a pen like a weapon: Michelle Dean's 'Sharp' 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Also charged in the indictment is a business called Sontag Company, Inc. Wisconsin men accused of faking companies to win contracts 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z 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 In them, Sontag beats up on herself for just about everything it is possible to beat up on oneself for short of murder. Susan Sontag and the Unholy Practice of Biography 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z As a result, some people will say, as they said of “The Volcano Lover,” that Sontag is not really a novelist, that she is still an essayist. The Hunger Artist 2000-02-28T05:00:00Z But there is also genuine connection among many of these women — Malcolm's note of appreciation to a dying Sontag strikes a note of grace and respect, as does Arendt's tender treatment of a young Adler. The women who wielded a pen like a weapon: Michelle Dean's 'Sharp' 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Sontag sees nuance of character and the development of emotional complexity as anathema to camp. Rising camp: how an arch sensibility got political 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z A Mississippi wildlife department biologist says a bear attacked a woman’s car Friday in the Sontag community about 60 miles south of Jackson. Car vandalism culprit? Evidence points to unidentified bear 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z In his account of Sontag’s worldly success, Moser shifts to a less baleful register. Susan Sontag and the Unholy Practice of Biography 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Sontag lived in the fire in her brain. The Hunger Artist 2000-02-28T05:00:00Z 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 As Sontag stresses, “in naive, or pure, camp, the essential element is seriousness, a seriousness that fails.” Rising camp: how an arch sensibility got political 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z 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 How the seedling became the majestic flowering plant of Sontag’s maturity is an inspiring story—though perhaps also a chastening one. Susan Sontag and the Unholy Practice of Biography 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Of the novel’s main themes, one, as the title tells us, is crucial: America, something that Sontag has been writing about for a long time. The Hunger Artist 2000-02-28T05:00:00Z 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 Sontag remarked that camp’s obsession with style at the expense of content rendered it “depoliticised … or at least apolitical” – an idea that history has since overturned. Rising camp: how an arch sensibility got political 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z 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 The writer Judith Grossman, who knew Sontag slightly at Oxford, remembered her as “the dark prince,” who strode through the colleges dressed entirely in black. Susan Sontag and the Unholy Practice of Biography 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Sontag’s entry into adulthood was violently swift, as if she wanted to get the transition over with. The Hunger Artist 2000-02-28T05:00:00Z Sontag was also charged with one count of vandalism. Police plead no contest to petty theft in pot shop raid 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z This is what has changed since Sontag wrote her notes: the idea of culture being something produced in one sector and passively consumed in another is over. Rising camp: how an arch sensibility got political 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z The reason dehydration causes cramping is largely theoretical, says Todd J. Sontag, DO, family physician with Orlando Health Physician Associates. 9 Causes of Leg Cramps—and How To Stop Them 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Sontag’s pencilled notes in a banal brochure of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society inspire Rieff’s reflection on “that astonishing mix of gallantry and pedantry that was one of her hallmarks.” Susan Sontag and the Unholy Practice of Biography 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z “That’s one of the reasons David and I resemble each other so much,” Sontag says. The Hunger Artist 2000-02-28T05:00:00Z 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 For Sontag, however, the best camp has no idea that it is camp. Rising camp: how an arch sensibility got political 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z Talk to your doctor if you started taking a new medication at the onset of your leg cramps; Dr. Sontag says he is usually able to find an alternative medication for his patients. 9 Causes of Leg Cramps—and How To Stop Them 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z For the next four decades, Sontag’s life was punctuated by a series of intense, doomed love affairs with beautiful, remarkable women, among them the dancer Lucinda Childs and the actress and filmmaker Nicole Stéphane. Susan Sontag and the Unholy Practice of Biography 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z “I really loved being a student,” Sontag says. The Hunger Artist 2000-02-28T05:00:00Z 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 As Sontag said: “To perceive camp in objects and persons is to understand Being-as-Playing-a-Role.” Rising camp: how an arch sensibility got political 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z Osteoarthritis, neuropathy, and thyroid conditions may also contribute to leg cramps, Dr. Sontag says. 9 Causes of Leg Cramps—and How To Stop Them 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Sontag did not want to be an academic; she wanted only to write. Susan Sontag and the Unholy Practice of Biography 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z In her early essays, Sontag was very much the Jacobin: a fiery reformer, laying down the law. The Hunger Artist 2000-02-28T05:00:00Z But the symposium’s final response, which came right after Sontag’s, was rather moderate. The Feuds of Diana Trilling 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z The other is a head shot of St. Paul police officer Joseph Sontag from 1936. History buff helps St. Paul police connect with their past 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z 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 She writes of trips that Sontag took her and David on whose sole purpose was enjoyment. Susan Sontag and the Unholy Practice of Biography 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z It is Sontag speaking, as she spoke to us all those years in the essays. The Hunger Artist 2000-02-28T05:00:00Z Diana Trilling, the only female respondent besides Sontag, knew a lot about the habits and styles of the “American intellectual.” The Feuds of Diana Trilling 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z “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 The solid literary achievement and spectacular worldly success that we associate with Sontag was, in Moser’s telling, always shadowed by abject fear and insecurity, increasingly accompanied by the unattractive behavior that fear and insecurity engender. Susan Sontag and the Unholy Practice of Biography 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Sontag knows she’s sixty-seven, but she says she feels no different from the way she felt at thirty, and she thinks her best writing is ahead of her. The Hunger Artist 2000-02-28T05:00:00Z Humans were hamstrung by their imperfect natures, and human institutions could apparently do no better—so she was never a revolutionary, or, à la Sontag, a “spiritual athlete” or a “strident self-transcender.” The Feuds of Diana Trilling 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z |
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