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Susan Sontag, known for her essays and political activism, dies at 71 in Manhattan. Sontag authored 17 books and was considered one of America's leading intellectuals. NPR's Kim Masters has an ...

If you are sitting around wondering what Susan Sontag would make of our current political moment, a new collection of her writing and interviews from the ’70s about feminism, On Women, offers ...

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The Washington Post: ‘On Women’ collects Susan Sontag’s crisp, cutting work about feminism

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The great French writer Colette once speculated that “certain highly complex human beings” are marked by their “mental hermaphroditism.” The fabled essayist Susan Sontag was among them. She was a ...

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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 ...

When a friend called me this morning with the news that Susan Sontag had died at the age 71, just about the first thing I thought was, “well, we’ll have a huge, hagiographical, front-page obituary ...

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Susan Sontag was one of the many subjects of Warhol’s Screen Tests, a silent-film portrait series capturing well–known cultural figures of the 1960s. Warhol filmed seven Screen Tests of the journalist ...

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Daily Bruin: New biography delves into private life of American literary icon Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag took on writing and activism in the 20th century and continues her legacy through the archives at UCLA. An archive of Sontag’s work and belongings is housed in the Charles E. Young ...