She wanted hope, a reason to believe she would survive cancer. In a candid interview, her son, David Rieff, discusses his mother's battle to live and his struggle to hide the truth.
By Steve Paulson Feb 13, 2008
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Susan Sontag's journals mean something different to just about everyone.
By Amy Benfer
December 18, 2008
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Old-guard feminists caterwaul for Hillary, while the "weird old coot" rattles right-wing radio. Plus: Balancing the climate debate, real "Teeth," and Suzanne Pleshette, RIP.
By Camille Paglia
February 13, 2008
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The renowned photographer's snapshots of her partner Susan Sontag and of her family, exhibited for the first time, are shocking in their intimacy -- but they should have stayed inside that shoe box.
By Sarah Karnasiewicz
November 18, 2006
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Susan Sontag wrote out of glorious, coldblooded anger. It's painful that today, when clarifying rage is about all we have left, her powerful voice is silent.
By Craig Seligman
January 4, 2005
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I crossed chopsticks with America's most ferocious intellectual -- and the sushi turned to ashes in my mouth.
By Val Wang
January 4, 2005
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How did America's leading film critic, who was fearlessly opposed to cant and dogma of all stripes, come to be seen as a homophobe?
June 25, 2004
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Denounced as a fifth columnist by the right, Susan Sontag blasts America's cowlike media and scaremongering leaders -- and says she fears that another terror attack could turn the U.S. into a police state.
By David Talbot
October 16, 2001
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Susan Sontag's beauty and brains made her America's most famous intellectual, but her true self is a mystery.
By Vivian Gornick
August 10, 2000
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When some Hollywood producers tried to bring the cinema -- and a few celebrities -- to an Albanian refugee camp, they found their audience, though appreciative, had more pressing dramas to deal with.
By Peter Landesman
July 8, 1999
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A recent crop of memoirs chronicles our obsession with illness,
from Tourette's syndrome to anorexia to obsessive-compulsive
disorder.
By Laura Miller
June 24, 1998
Susan Sontag's final wish
Portrait of the public intellectual as mere mortal
Blood-and-guts politics
Annie Leibovitz's reckless candor
Fire and ice
The gay attacks on Pauline Kael
The "traitor" fires back
The sphinx
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