David RieffDavid Rieff is a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine. He is the author of seven previous books, including the acclaimed At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Int
This, the second of three volumes of Susan Sontag’s journals and notebooks, begins where the first volume left off, in the middle of the 1960s. It traces and documents Sontag’s evolution from fledglin
A second volume of journals by the National Book Award-winning author of In America shares intimate reflections on the writer's artistic and political development during a trip to Hanoi at the peak of
"In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself."The first of three volumes of Susan Sontag's journals and notebooks, Reborn (1947-1963) reveals o
The first of three volumes of Susan Sontag's journals and notebooks, this book presents a constantly surprising record of a great mind in incubation. It begins with journal entries and early attempts
Originally published in 1999, this A-to-Z guidebook of wartime atrocities has received worldwide acclaim and has been translated into eleven languages. Now substantially updated, with sixteen new
"A writer is someone who pays attention to the world," Susan Sontag said in her 2003 acceptance speech for the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, and no one exemplified this definition more than s
One of the most important thinkers and writers of the twentieth century, Susan Sontag's path-breaking first collection of essays, Against Interpretation, introduced her as a major figure of our cultu