Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag was the author of four novels, including The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover, and In America, which won the 2000 National Book Award for fiction; a collection of stories, I, etcetera; several plays, including Alice in Bed; and nine works of essays, among them On Photography, which won the National Books Critics Circle Award for criticism. In 2001, Sontag was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work. She died in New York City in 2004.
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On Photography
Susan Sontag
Picador
Picador
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
A new edition of Susan Sontag’s groundbreaking critique of photography—its problems, politics,...
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Debriefing
Susan Sontag; Edited by Benjamin Taylor
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Picador
A collection of short fiction from Susan Sontag, the National Book Award-winning author of In America and Against Interpretation, and the renowned essayist praised as “one...
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As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh
Susan Sontag; Edited by David Rieff
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A Financial Times Best Book of 2012
From the turbulent years of her trip to Hanoi at the peak of the Vietnam War to her time making films in Sweden and up to...
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At the Same Time
Susan Sontag; Edited by Paolo Dilonardo and Anne Jump; Foreword by David Rieff
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Sontag's incisive intelligence, expressive brilliance, and deep curiosity about art, politics, and the writer's responsibility to bear witness have secured her place as one of the most important...
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The Volcano Lover
Susan Sontag
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Set in 18th century Naples, based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his celebrated wife Emma, and Lord Nelson, and peopled with many of the great figures of the day, this unconventional, bestselling...
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Regarding the Pain of Others
Susan Sontag
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Picador
A brilliant, clear-eyed consideration of the visual representation of violence in our culture—its ubiquity, meanings, and effects.
Considered one of the greatest critics...
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Under the Sign of Saturn
Susan Sontag
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This third essay collection by America's leading essayist brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 to 1980, in which she explores some of the most influential artists and thinkers...
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Where the Stress Falls
Susan Sontag
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Picador
Thirty-five years after her first collection, the now classic Against Interpretation, America's most important essayist has chosen more than forty longer and shorter pieces from the last...
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The Benefactor
Susan Sontag
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Picador
The Benefactor, Susan Sontag's first book and first novel, originally published in 1963, introduced a unique writer to the world. In the form of a memoir by a latter-day Candide named Hippolyte,...
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I, etcetera
Susan Sontag
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Picador
In eight stories, this singular collection of short fiction written over the course of ten years explores the terrain of modern urban life. In reflective, telegraphic prose, Susan Sontag confronts...
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Styles of Radical Will
Susan Sontag
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Picador
Styles of Radical Will, Susan Sontag's second collection of essays, extends the investigations she undertook in Against Interpretation with essays on film, literature, politics,...
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Against Interpretation
Susan Sontag
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Picador
Includes the essay "Notes on Camp," the inspiration for the 2019 exhibition Notes on Fashion: Camp at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Against...
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On Photography
Susan Sontag
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Picador
Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism.
One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, Susan Sontag's On Photography first appeared...
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Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
Susan Sontag
Picador
Picador
Susan Sontag’s celebrated essays on cancer and AIDS now available in one volume.
In 1978, Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek...
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In America
Susan Sontag
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Picador
In America is a kaleidoscopic portrait of America on the cusp of modernity. As she did in her enormously popular novel The Volcano Lover, Susan Sontag casts a story located in the...
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A Susan Sontag Reader
Susan Sontag
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Susan Sontag occupies a special place in Modern American letters. She has become our most important critic, while her brilliant novels and short fiction are, at long last, getting the recognition...
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