One of the few Americans to manage superbly the dual roles of public intellectual and novelist, Sontag, whose novel In America won a National Book Award in 2000, reaches a big audience even as she ...

The fascination of Sontag lies in her endurance as a cultural icon, the model of how a woman should think and write in public, even though her thinking and writing weren’t very rigorous. What is ...

“I have always liked to pretend my body isn’t there,” Susan Sontag once wrote. But no matter how hard she tried, it never went away. She was stunningly inattentive to her physical self—surprised by ...

Stone is the author of "Starting With Serge," "Close to the Bone" and "Laughing in the Dark." In September 2006, an excerpt of Susan Sontag’s diaries, edited by her son, David Rieff, was published in ...

When Susan Sontag passed away in 2004, her New York Times obituary described her as a “renowned novelist, essayist, and critic.” “Regarding Susan Sontag,” a documentary directed by Nancy Kates that ...

Nancy Kates recounts the life and work of Susan Sontag. By THR Staff Regarding Susan Sontag Still Tribeca - H 2014 Kates maintains a satisfying balance between personal biography and an assessment of ...

Susan Sontag, the author, activist and self-defined “zealot of seriousness” whose voracious mind and provocative prose made her a leading intellectual of the past half century, died Tuesday. She was ...

Susan Sontag's novel "In America" won the National Book Award for Fiction last year. It was the latest of many honors– including a McCarthur Genius grant– for Sontag, who has written three other ...

Novelist, essayist and driving intellectual force, Susan Sontag, died late last year. In her memory, we offer this conversation, first broadcast in October 1992. On this first visit to Bookworm, she ...