A new biography of writer Susan Sontag (1933–2004) by Benjamin Moser reveals that the famed essayist once had a short-lived affair with the painter Jasper Johns. The revelation about the unexpected ...

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 ...

Susan Sontag. She was a brand long before most writers knew they needed one. Even if you’ve never read a Sontag book, you can still engage with her seriousness by studying her darkly handsome, ...

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 ...

SONTAG: Her Life and Work. By Benjamin Moser. Ecco. 816 pages. $39.99. It’s almost impossible to sand down Susan Sontag or even to come up with a consistent through-line for her life. She is always so ...

Benjamin Moser lives in the Netherlands with his Dutch partner, but make no mistake: Houston is home. He grew up in West University Place, and his family’s Houston roots go back to the 19th century.

The young woman who would become Susan Sontag, one of the 20th century’s most visible American public intellectuals, wrote constantly about her life in private, in diaries. She rarely did so in public ...

She was America's last great literary star, her beautiful, glamorous face adorning popular magazines in the 1960s, photographed by Andy Warhol and Richard Avedon. Later, she was universally recognized ...

The Sarajevo Film Festival, now 30 years old, grew out of underground screenings during the siege of the city. Those roots still define the event’s character. By Beatrice Loayza Is it a sign of ...