Susan Sontag, the author, activist and self-defined "zealot of seriousness" whose voracious mind and provocative prose made her a leading intellectual of the past half century, died Tuesday. She was ...

The fascination of Sontag lies in her endurance as a cultural icon, the model of how a woman should think and write in public, even though her thinking and writing weren’t very rigorous. What is ...

Susan Sontag is having a great afterlife. Not a day goes by without a reference or two; her name can be found so often in the Sunday New York Times that a writer friend jokes about playing "Sontag ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Susan Sontag would have loved the Met Gala. (I'll get to the hate in a ...

Authorities in Sarajevo plan to name a city square after the late U.S. author and activist Susan Sontag, who, during the Bosnian war, staged Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godotthere. Haris Pasovic, the ...

Recall that line in On Photography about why great industrial nations (Germany, Japan, America) produce tourists who take photographs while on holiday: “Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the ...

Is Susan Sontag the only critic left who still cares about high culture? It’s been almost 40 years since “Against Interpretation’’ became an iconic text in faddish counteracademic lit-crit, and the ...

“I love being alive” — these are the first words Susan Sontag speaks in “Regarding Susan Sontag,” Nancy Kates’ documentary on the late American novelist, critic and ponderer of culture high, low and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Susan Sontag would have loved the Met Gala. (I'll get to the hate in a moment.) This year it's inspired (at least in part) by her.