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Sontag: Her Life and Work

Benjamin Moser’s biography Sontag: Her Life and Work reveals with illuminating clarity Susan Sontag’s ceaseless quest to understand and be understood.

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Review of ‘Sontag: Her Life and Work’

Perhaps no writer of the late 20th century has been more mythologized, or lionized, than Susan Sontag. Beautifully written and moving, Benjamin Moser’s Sontag: Her Life and Work reveals with illuminating clarity Sontag’s ceaseless quest to understand and be understood; her often arrogant and condescending manner, even to those closest to her; and her attempts to…

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