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Sigrid Nunez
A biographical portrait by the novelist who lived with Sontag’s son for several years in the seventies and knew her well in her last years.
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Susan Sontag
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…
On Women brings together Susan Sontag's most fearless and incisive writing on women, a crucial aspect of her work that has not until now received the attention it deserves
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A story inspired by the emigration to America in 1876 of Helena Modrzejewska, Poland’s most celebrated actress, accompanied by her husband, Count Karol Chlapowski, her fifteen-year-old son, Rudolf, the young…
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…
Providing an insight into the mind of one of the leading intellectuals of the modern age, this title chronicles the cultural, moral, and political journeys of this renowned critic and…
Complete collected stories from one of the most brilliant & influential writers of the twentieth century
Susan Sontag is most often remembered as a brilliant essayist - inquisitive, analytical, fearlessly…
Features an analysis of our numbed response to images of horror. This title alters our thinking about the uses and meanings of images, and about the nature of war, the…
In these groundbreaking studies, Sontag strips away the myths that surround the two most stigmatized diseases of our time
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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…
A historical romance, Sontag’s book is based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his wife, Emma, and Lord Nelson in the final decades of the eighteenth century. Passionately examining…
Features a critique of photography that asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. This title examines the ways in which we use these omnipresent…
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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…
Argues that modern cultural conditions have given way to a critical approach to aesthetics.
Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry
‘The ultimate Camp statement- it’s good…
On Women brings together for the first time Susan Sontag's most incisive and direct writing on womanhood
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Benjamin Moser
The definitive portrait of one of the twentieth century’s most towering figures - her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her private face.
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Leonid Tsypkin
Join Dostoevsky on his tumultuous honeymoon in this hypnotic cult classic , introduced by Susan Sontag.
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Contains sixteen essays. Reflecting on literature, photography and art, post 9/11 America and political activism, this title includes these essays that encompass the themes that dominated the author’s life and…
A selection from Susan Sontag’s diaries (from 1947-1963) that takes us from early adolescence though to when Sontag was in her early thirties. It is an honest self-portrait which is…
Jerome Boyd Maunsell
A new biography, which assesses the astonishing scope and offers captivating insight into the life and work of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth-century, Susan Sontag.
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A selection of writings about the arts and contemporary culture. Containing a title essay, ‘On Style’ and the famous ‘Notes on Camp’, this book includes discussion of such figures as…
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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…
Peter Hujar
A new edition of the cult classic photography book by the legendary Peter Hujar, featuring a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser
Marshall McLuhan,Marshall McLuhan,Susan Sontag,Bruno Munari
Written by the author who is known for coining the term ‘Global Village’, this title illustrates his theories that force us to question how modes of communication have shaped society.
Carl Rollyson
In Understanding Susan Sontag, Carl Rollyson not only provides an introduction to her essays, novels, plays, films, diaries, and uncollected work, since the publication of her diaries, he now has…
A collection of interviews that cover the period from 1967 through 1993. Giving attention to Sontag’s education and the development of her aesthetic and moral temperament, they cover Sontag’s rich…
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In this collection, Terry Castle, Nancy K. Miller, Wayne Koestenbaum, E. Ann Kaplan, and other leading scholars confront Susan Sontag’s groundbreaking life and works anew.
Susan Sontag (1933-2004) spoke of the promiscuity of art and literature& mdash;the willingness of great artists and writers to scandalize their spectators through critical frankness, complexity, and beauty. Sontag’s life…
"A new collection of Susan Sontag's essays about women, edited by David Rieff and introduced by Merve Emre"--
Leads us on a kind of psychic Grand Tour, in which a latter-day Candide named Hippolyte’s violently imaginative dream life becomes indistinguishable from his surprising experiences in the ‘real world’.
This collection includes more than forty essays from the last two decades, illustrating a deeply-felt, kaleidoscopic array of interests, passions, observations and ideas. It records the writer’s urgent engagement with…
Taitulo original: Regarding the pain of others –Title page verso.
Originally published: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c1977.
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…
In 1876, a group of Poles led by Maryna Zalezowska, Poland’s greatest actress, travels to California to found a utopian commune. In America is a big, juicy, surprising book about…
In 1772, Naples is home to The Cavaliere - the British ambassador and man of wealth. When his nephew’s former mistress comes into his life, he is swept away by…
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…
Sontag Susan
Two decades of indispensable work by a great American writer. Thirty-five years after her first collection of essays, Sontag has chosen more than 40 longer and shorter pieces that illustrate…
