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Susan-Sontag

Book Review: Susan Sontag’s Collected Stories — From the Back Burner

Susan Sontag wrote short stories as a hobby; she saved more of her enormous intellectual energy for her novels and essays.

By: Matt Hanson Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Debriefing: Collected Stories, Matt Hanson, short stories, Susan-Sontag

Theater Review: “Sontag: Reborn” — A Song of Herself

Dramatically speaking, Sontag: Reborn fails to treat a flawed iconoclast with the necessary creative playfulness. Hush, Saint Susan Aborning!

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: ArtsEmerson, Marianne Weems, Moe Angelos, Sontag:Reborn, Susan-Sontag, The Builders Association

Critical Homage: A. Alvarez — Beyond Fiddling Away

By Bill Marx Al Alvarez’s new book of essays provides an opportunity to also strongly recommend his first collection of literary commentary and reviews, 1969’s Beyond All This Fiddle, one of the most invigorating collections of cultural commentary from that period. The latest issue of the TLS features an irritatingly short review of Risky Business, […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured Tagged: 60s, Al-Alvarez, beyond-all-this-fiddle, Books, criticism, risky-business, Susan-Sontag

Book Review: Regarding the Pain of Others

Critic Susan Sontag asks whether repeated exposure to images of violence makes us less sensitive to human suffering. Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag. (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 144 pages) By Bill Marx The controversy over whether images of American POWs held by Iraqi forces should be broadcast on television testifies to the […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books Tagged: Susan-Sontag, Violence

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