Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Susan Sontag would have loved the Met Gala. (I'll get to the hate in a moment.) This year it's inspired (at least in part) by her.

In her journals, Susan Sontag exhibits the fierce intelligence that distinguishes her work — along with a vulnerability that may surprise. The... By the end of her life in 2004, the novelist and ...

A new biography of writer Susan Sontag (1933–2004) by Benjamin Moser reveals that the famed essayist once had a short-lived affair with the painter Jasper Johns. The revelation about the unexpected ...

At first glance, the cover of Susan Sontag’s final book—the almost-complete manuscript she left at her death in December 2004—seems At first glance, the cover of Susan Sontag’s final book—the ...

Recall that line in On Photography about why great industrial nations (Germany, Japan, America) produce tourists who take photographs while on holiday: “Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the ...

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 ...

In the film Regarding Susan Sontag, director Nancy Kates attempted to create, in her words, “the best possible entry point” to understanding the life and work of the famous writer, filmmaker and ...

“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 ...

Susan Sontag. She was a brand long before most writers knew they needed one. Even if you’ve never read a Sontag book, you can still engage with her seriousness by studying her darkly handsome, ...

The great French writer Colette once speculated that “certain highly complex human beings” are marked by their “mental hermaphroditism.” The fabled essayist Susan Sontag was among them. She was a ...