Susan Sontag, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $27 (288p) ISBN 978-0-374-28917-1
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 divides critics. First and foremost an essayist,...
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Susan Sontag, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $23 (144p) ISBN 978-0-374-24858-1
Twenty-six years after the publication of her influential collection of essays On Photography
(1977), Sontag (In America) reconsiders ideas that are "now fast approaching the status of platitudes," especially the view that our capacity to...
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Susan Sontag, Author Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc $22 (419p) ISBN 978-0-374-28516-6
It should be no surprise that Sontag's (The Way We Live Now) excursion into the realm of historical/romance novels serves a more rigorous agenda than merely fictionalizing the lives of Sir William Hamilton; his wife, Emma; and her lover, Lord Nelson.
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Susan Sontag, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $14.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-374-10257-9
In Illness as Metaphor , which focused on cancer, Sontag argued that the myths and metaphors surrounding disease can kill by instilling shame and guilt in the sick, thus delaying them from seeking treatment. She sees a similar process at work in the
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Susan Sontag, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $25 (117p) ISBN 978-0-374-10273-9
Sontag's ( The Volcano Lover ) first stage play focuses on Alice James, the invalid sister of Henry and William and, since Jean Strouse's acclaimed 1980 biography and the publication of her diary, a feminist icon. It is in the latter role that...
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Susan Sontag, Author Anchor Books $14.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-385-26713-7
Focusing on the famous love triangle between British envoy Sir William Hamilton, his wife Emma and her lover Lord Nelson, Sontag's intellectual historical romance, a 10-week PW bestseller in cloth, paints an unconventional portrait of 18th-century...
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Susan Sontag, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $26 (387p) ISBN 978-0-374-17540-5
As she did in The Volcano Lover, Sontag crafts a novel of ideas in which real figures from the past enact their lives against an assiduously researched, almost cinematically vivid background. Here again her signal achievement is to offer fresh and...
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Susan Sontag. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (336p) ISBN 978-0-374-10075-9
The first complete collection of the late Sontag’s stories affirms both the range and depth of her literary gifts. The volume adds three previously uncollected works, all first published in the New Yorker, to the eight collected as I, Etcetera in...
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Susan Sontag, Author, David Rieff, Editor , edited by David Rieff. Farrar, Straus & Giroux $24 (318p) ISBN 978-0-374-10074-2
The first of three planned volumes of Sontag’s private journals, this book is extraordinary for all the reasons we would expect from Sontag’s writing—extreme seriousness, stunning authority, intolerance toward mediocrity; SontagR
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Susan Sontag, edited by David Rieff. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 (544p) ISBN 978-0-374-10076-6
“The notebook has become an art form,” writes Sontag toward the end of this second collection of her own notebooks and journals. Beginning as the Vietnam War is heating up and ending right before the Reagan era, this volume offers at times...
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Susan Sontag, Author, Paolo Dilonardo, Editor, Anne Jump, Editor , edited by Paolo Dilonardo and Anne Jump, foreword by David Rieff. Farrar, Straus & Giroux $23 (235p) ISBN 978-0-374-10072-8
Literature and politics are inextricably intertwined and unified by moral purpose in this powerful collection of pieces (a couple not previously published in English or at all) by iconic critic and novelist Sontag (Regarding the Pain of Others
),...
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Susan Sontag, Author, Sontag, Author Anchor Books $12.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-385-26705-2
``In Illness as Metaphor , Sontag argues that the myths and metaphors surrounding disease can kill by instilling shame and guilt in the sick, thus delaying them from seeking treatment,'' wrote PW. She sees, and discusses provocatively, a similar...
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Jonathan Cott. Yale Univ., $26 (168p) ISBN 978-0-300-18979-7
Cott (Days That I Remember: Spending Time with John Lennon and Yoko Ono), a founding contributing editor of Rolling Stone, presents the full text of an interview he conducted in 1978 with Sontag, which was excerpted in the magazine in 1979....
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Susan Sontag, read by Coleen Marlo. HighBridge Audio, unabridged, 7 CDs, 8.5 hrs., $34.99 ISBN 978-1-6816-8704-9
Actor Marlo masters Sontag’s complex literary voice in these 11 stories, effortlessly navigating fractured expressions and disjointed configurations. In “The Letter Scene,” Marlo smoothly handles a collage of back-and-forth shifts among multiple...
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Susan Sontag, edited by David Rieff. Picador, $16 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-250-87685-0
This incisive compilation of previously published essays and interviews by cultural critic Sontag (1933–2004) showcases her striking intelligence and continued relevance. The seven pieces contemplate feminism and women’s roles in society, as in “The
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