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Susan Sontag
A narrative of the suffering of Dalton ‘Diddy’ Harron, told through his own observations. He works in advertising for a microscope manufacturer, is thirty-three and divorced and a month ago…
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Brings together the author’s important critical writing from 1972 to 1980. This title explores some of the most controversial artists and thinkers of our time, including her polemic against Hitler’s…
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Offers a critique of photography that asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. This book examines the ways in which we use these omnipresent…
Includes ardent pieces on writers from the author’s own private canon - Machado de Assis, Barthes, W G Sebald, Borges, Tsvetaeva and Elizabeth Hardwick. This work shares her passions for…
Originally published: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c1977.
A collection of eight short stories, written over the course of ten years, exploring the terrain of modern urban life. The narratives are seamed with many of the themes of…
An examination of the role of imagery in modern culture considers how depictions of violence, from wartime photographs to footage of the September 11 attacks, are used and how they…
A dramatic fantasy based on the anguished life of Alice James (1848-92), the sister of William and Henry James. She merges imaginatively with Lewis Carroll’s Alice at a tea-party at…
Mena Mitrano
This adventurous critical inquiry into Sontag’s archive illuminates the intimate link between modernism and theory while also providing a fascinating reintroduction to these two movements and concepts.
This work catalogues the works of one of America’s most prolific and important 20th century authors. This volume is an exhaustive collection that includes her novels, essays, reviews, films and…
Mark Fulk
This book offers its readers a scholarly examination of Sontag’s essays within the context of philosophy and aesthetics. This study constructs a dialogue between her works and their philosophical counterparts…
Sibyl Kempson
Sibyl Kempson’s Let Us Know Praise Susan Sontag is an irrational musical contemplation of collision of art and journalism.
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Jonathan Cott
Susan Sontag, one of the most internationally renowned and controversial intellectuals of the latter half of the twentieth century, still provokes. In 1979, Jonathan Cott, of Rolling Stone magazine, interviewed…
A collection of essays on the relationship between moral and aesthetic ideas. The book brings together some of Sontag’s best critical writing of the 1970s, on subjects ranging from Walter…
Stephan Isernhagen
Die US-Amerikanerin Susan Sontag (1933-2004) gilt heute als Ikone, als streitbare Intellektuelle in der Tradition Zolas und Voltaires. Doch wie wurde sie zur schillernden und ebenso umstrittenen Figur des New…
Carl Rollyson
The first book to survey the broad range of Ms. Sontag’s work, including full discussions of her fiction. One can ask for no better guidebook. -M. Thomas Inge.
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Susan Sontag’s Way We Live Now, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
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Peter Burke
The remarkable story of Western polymaths from the fifteenth century to the present day
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Halldor Laxness
At the beginning of this otherworldly novel, the Bishop of Iceland dispatches a young emissary to investigate certain charges against a pastor, who, among other things, appears to have given…
Reveals that the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of the patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. By demystifying the…
With the publication of her first book of criticism, Against Interpretation, in 1966, Susan Sontag placed herself at the forefront of an era of cultural and political transformation. What is…
Edward Field
Long before Stonewall, young Air Force veteran Edward Field, fresh from combat in WWII, threw himself into New York’s literary bohemia, searching for fulfillment as a gay man and poet…
The first history of the western polymath, from the fifteenth century to the present day From Leonardo Da Vinci to John Dee and Comenius, from George Eliot to Oliver Sacks…
Maria Irene Fornes
Fornes has been an influential voice in American theatre for more than four decades.
Robert Boyers
This is a memoiristic book and a dual portrait, built around intense friendships with two leading public intellectuals who achieved celebrity status-Susan Sontag on a global scale, George Steiner principally…
Sontag Susan
A collection of essays that contains some of the important pieces of criticism of the twentieth century, including the classics The Aesthetics of Silence , an account of language, thought…
From one of today’s most powerful intellectuals comes a volume containing all of her shorter fiction, ranging from allegory to parable to autobiography which shows her wrestling with problems not…
At the Same Time gathers 16 essays and addresses written in the last years of Sontag’s life, when her work was being honored on the international stage, that reflect on…
Don McCullin is one of the world’s greatest photographers. Part of the Photofile series, this book brings together his best work.
Anna Banti
Artemisia Gentileschi, born in 1598, the daughter of an esteemed painter, taught art in Naples and painted the great women of Roman and biblical history. She could neither read nor…
Artemisia Gentileschi was an Italian Baroque painter, today considered one of the most accomplished painters in the generation following that of Caravaggio.Much in Gentileschi’s life marked her out as a…
Leonid Tsypkin
A lost masterpiece and one of the major achievements of Russian literature in the second half of the 20th century.
Walter Benjamin
Classic collection of Walter Benjamin’s essay, including some of his most celebrated essays
This poetry anthology includes the work of Russian writers Alexander Vedensky, Daniil Kharms, and Nikolai Zabolotsky who, between 1927 and 1930 made up the core of OBERIU (The Union of…
Susan Sontag,Rieff
This first of three volumes of Susan Sontag’s journals and notebooks presents a constantly and utterly surprising record of a great mind in incubation. Reborn is a kaleidoscopic self-portrait of…
A second volume of journals shares intimate reflections on the writer’s artistic and political development during a trip to Hanoi at the peak of the Vietnam War and throughout her…