Susan Sontag

The Woman With the Mysterious Illness Behind Freud’s Famous “Talking Cure”

Gabriel Brownstein on the Long Tradition of Men Misdiagnosing Women’s Maladies

 
By Gabriel Brownstein  April 17, 2024
Eating disorders

Sororal Death and Sad, Sexy Icons: Emmeline Clein on Eating Disorder Memoirs and the Contagion of Identification

By Emmeline Clein  February 28, 2024
Childhood

When Your Childhood Belongs to Everyone: Growing Up in a Downtown Manhattan That Changed Forever on 9/11

By Emma Dries  February 22, 2024
Diaries

A Fearless, Free, Literary Space: On Writers’ Diaries

By Isabella Trimboli  September 6, 2023
New Books Tuesdays

23 new books out today!

By Gabrielle Bellot  May 30, 2023
The Hub

Kristen Stewart is playing Susan Sontag in a new biopic.

By Jessie Gaynor  February 10, 2023
Chronic Pain

How to Write a Pain Book

By Lisa Levy  April 28, 2022
Journaling

On Notes to a Future Self: How Journaling Helps Me Write

By Kate Folk  March 29, 2022
Queer Lit

Notes on Queerness and Camp in Crime Fiction

By Tice Cin  October 25, 2021
Poetry

“Excursion Susan Sontag”

By Maureen N. McLane  July 20, 2021
Behind the Mic

The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story, Edited by John Freeman, Read by Ensemble

By Behind the Mic   July 13, 2021
Memoir

“Camp is a Sensibility.” On Susan Sontag, Extravagance, and Sexuality

By Amelia Abraham  June 15, 2021
Essays

Phillip Lopate Considers America’s Post-WWII Essay Boom

By Phillip Lopate  April 5, 2021
Keen On

Wendy Lower on the Political Power of Photography

By Keen On  March 18, 2021
Memoir

Gabriel Byrne Talks Memory, Loneliness and More With Karl Geary

By Karl Geary  January 13, 2021
The Hub

Here’s 33 writers on why they write.

By Walker Caplan  January 6, 2021
Photography

What Does It Mean to Look at Photos of Imagined Violence?

By Sarah Sentilles  October 19, 2020
Islam

The Long History of Blaming the Devout During a Plague

By Alan Mikhail  June 15, 2020
Life in a Pandemic

With Apologies to Susan Sontag, We’re Going to Need Metaphor to Get Through This Global Illness

By David Farrier  May 15, 2020
Criticism

How Virginia Woolf and Susan Sontag Looked at Photos
of Violence

By Pepper Stetler  May 1, 2020
Writing Advice

Demystifying the Writer’s Fear of Failure

By Sarah LaBrie  October 16, 2019
Philosophy

The Books of Susan Sontag, Ranked

By Lisa Levy  October 4, 2019
Criticism

Open to Interpretation: The Brief Relationship of Susan Sontag and Jasper Johns

By Benjamin Moser  September 19, 2019
The Hub

Susan Sontag reacting to 9/11 in The New Yorker remains essential reading.

By Jonny Diamond  September 11, 2019
The Rights of Women

What Contraception Meant to a Century of Women Writers

By Julie Phillips  August 5, 2019
Notes on Twitter

What Happens When You Pose as Susan Sontag on Twitter?

By Rebecca Brill  May 23, 2019
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