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Susan Sontag

Sontag: Her life by Benjamin Moser

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November 2019, no. 416
Paul Kildea reviews 'Sontag: Her life' by Benjamin Moser

Sam Leith, literary editor of Spectator magazine, recently put author Benjamin Moser on the spot. ‘Do you think her work will last?’ he asked, referring to the writings of Susan Sontag, whose biography Moser had not long finished. ‘And if so, which of it?’ Moser dissembled bravely. ‘Well, I hope so ...

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Susan Sontag by Daniel Schreiber, trans. David Dollenmayer. & Susan Sontag by Jerome Boyd Maunsell

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March 2015, no. 369
Andrea Goldsmith reviews 'Susan Sontag: A biography' by Daniel Schreiber, translated by David Dollenmayer and 'Susan Sontag' by Jerome Boyd Maunsell

At the age of eight I wanted to be a novelist. By the age of eighteen, having fallen in love with an intellectual, I aspired to be a novelist with sturdy intellectual credentials. There was much work to be done. My beloved set me a course of essential reading, including Susan Sontag’s first two essay collections and her two early novels.

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Sempre Susan by Sigrid Nunez & Swimming in a Sea of Death by David Rieff

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September 2011, no. 334

In her short memoir of Susan Sontag, novelist Sigrid Nunez claims that she did not read the obituaries and commentaries after her death in 2004, and that she was never much interested in what other people said about Sontag. If it’s true, she is indeed a rara avis. Susan Sontag, in death as in life, generates enormous interest and a growing literature, one that promises to burgeon and diversify biographically in the next decade. How long before we hear from the concierge, the oncologist, the tamer of the famous mane?

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