"Cancer is first of all a disease of the body's geography, in contrast to syphilis and AIDS, whose definition depends on constructing a temporal sequence of stages," wrote Susan Sontag in her 1987 ...
It's been a decade since the death of Susan Sontag. Now the arrival of a perceptive and at times quite witty bio-doc from HBO's Nancy D. Kates is a great occasion not only to celebrate the legacy of a ...
Susan Sontag, writer and intellectual, poses for a photograph at her New York apartment in an August 1992 file photo. Sontag, the author, activist and self-defined "zealot of seriousness" whose ...
Bay Area Reporter: Guest Opinion: Susan Sontag and me: Epidemics I have lived through
Susan Sontag. She was a brand long before most writers knew they needed one. Even if you’ve never read a Sontag book, you can still engage with her seriousness by studying her darkly handsome, ...
Winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for biography, this hefty book (800-plus pages) examines the life of one of America’s best-known public intellectuals, Susan Sontag. “An authoritatively ...
W magazine: After Diana, Kristen Stewart Will Play Writer Royalty Susan Sontag
At its heart, the name Susan is a botanical name. It means “lily” in Persian and Hebrew. However, its roots go even deeper into antiquity, meaning “lotus flower” in Egyptian (1).
Susan is a feminine given name, the usual English version of Susanna or Susannah. All are versions of the Hebrew name Shoshana, which is derived from the Hebrew shoshan, meaning lotus flower in Egyptian, original derivation, and several other languages. [1][2]