Susan Sontag

What Jackie Kennedy, Susan Sontag And Angela Davis Learned In Paris

Debra Ollivier | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Alice Kaplan, Baby Boomers, Study Abroad, Angela Davis, French Studies, Susan Sontag, Slidepollajax, Fifty News
Debra Ollivier

In the new book Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis, author Alice Kaplan explores the lives of three radically different, influential American women who had an enduring bond with France -- and vice-versa.

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AfterEllen.com's Best Lesbian Week Ever: March 30 to April 6

Trish Bendix | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Lgbt, Queer, Fashion Star, Michelle Tea, Sister Spit, Susan Sarandon, Bisexual, Lesbian, Susan Sontag, Kara Laricks, Carrie Brownstein, AfterEllen.Com, Gay Voices News
Trish Bendix

Each week we'll share some of the best tidbits on The Huffington Post in our new series, "Best Lesbian Week Ever." Here's who and what was on our raging gay radar this week.

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Annie Leibovitz's Surprising New Show

Posted 02.03.2012

Read More: Video, Pilgrimage Smithsonian, Susan Sontag, Leibovitz Smithsonian, Vanity Fair, Angelina Jolie, Leibovitz, Abraham Lincoln, Smithsonian, Women Artists, Obama, Emily Dickinson, Annie Oakley, Georgia O'Keeffe, Annie Leibovitz, Arts News

Photographer Annie Leibovitz is known for her captivating photographs of people, mostly celebrities. Her portraits, through spectacle, evoke the essen...

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WATCH: 'Under The Radar' Theater Festival Kicks Off Today

Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Theater Festival, Video, Alexis: A Greek Tragedy, Susan Sontag, Broadway, Theater, Legally Blonde, Spiderman, Sontag:Reborn, Lick but Don't Swallow, Antigone, Hollywood Musicals, Under the Radar, Arts News

With the rise of productions like 'Legally Blonde' and 'Spiderman,' it is looking more and more like the bright lights of Broadway are being overshado...

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Thinking Photography With Diane Arbus and Errol Morris

Michael Roth | Posted 12.09.2011

Read More: Diane Arbus, Erroll Morris, William Todd Schultz, Michael S. Roth, Susan Sontag, Books News
Michael Roth

A photograph "partially takes us outside ourselves" and "gives us a glimpse . . . of something real." This is a key part of what Arbus and Morris are both after.

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Q&A With Nicole Krauss, Author of Great House and The History of Love

Elana Estrin | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Edgar Allan Poe, Mishkenot Sha?Ananim, Kenwood House, Sigmund Freud, Alma Singer, Bruno Schulz, Pinochet, The Moomintroll Series, Georges Perec, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Fleur Cowles, Man Walks Into a Room, Evelyn Waugh, John Fowles, Haim Hazaz, Isaac Bashevis Singer, National Book Award, Yehuda Amichai, Rembrandt, Franz Kafka, Jerusalem Cultural Fellowship, Saul Bellow, Peter Handke, Jerusalem, John Foster Dulles, Susan Sontag, Amos Oz, Zbigniew Herbert, Chile, Tove Jansson, Francis Bacon, Courtauld Institute in London, Nicole Krauss, The Last Jew, Great House, Hampstead Heath, The History of Love, Yoel Hoffmann, Samuel Beckett, Yoram Kaniuk, David Grossman, Israel, Harry Ransom Center, Thomas Bernhard, Books We Love, Books News
Elana Estrin

While studying art history in graduate school, novelist Nicole Krauss spent hours in the library researching Rembrandt, only to find that she preferred imagining the details of his life instead.

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10 Books You Really Should Have Read In High School: An Alternate List

flavorwire.com | Posted 10.08.2011

Read More: David Foster Wallace, High School Books, Tolstoy, Art Spiegelman, Susan Sontag, Arundhati Roy, Books News

This week, we came across this list of ‘books you really should have read in high school’ over at MSNBC’s Today Books. While their picks are def...

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Rethinking Societal Attitudes About People Who Get Cancer

Joseph Nowinski, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Breast Cancer, Cancer, Breast Cancer Treatment, Metastatic Breast Cancer Network, Metastatic Breast Cancer, Illness as Metaphor, Cancer Societal Stigma, Susan Sontag, Cancer Myths, Breast Cancer Myths, Cancer Stigma, Healthy Living News
Joseph Nowinski, Ph.D.

Our personality does not make us more or less likely to get cancer, and its successful treatment is not essentially a matter of our outlook.

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15 Minutes and Counting - Warhol's Stars Shine On at the Museum of Modern Art

Mark Wiener and Linda DiGusta | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Andy Warhol, 1960s, Edie Sedgwick, Martha Stewart, New York Art Openings, Susan Sontag, Fran Drescher, Dennis Hopper, Film, Museum of Modern Art, Klaus Biesenbach, Allen Ginsberg, New York, Owen Wilson, Lou Reed, Arts News
Mark Wiener and Linda DiGusta

In his opening remarks to "Andy Warhol: Motion Pictures," MoMA's Chief Curator at Large Klaus Biesenbach told us to think of Warhol's screen tests -- 12 of which are presented in large-scale on the wall of one gallery -- as portraits.

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A New Yorker Looks at Our Mosque Dilemma

Barbara Probst Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, Ground Zero Mosque, Saul Bellow, Jacob Schiff, 92nd Street Y, Michael Bloomberg, Susan Sontag, T.S. Eliot, New York News
Barbara Probst Solomon

I'm also discouraged when some of my fellow liberals behave with wanton naiveté, and indeed callousness, in brushing aside as irrelevant the pain of the families of the 3,000 people killed on 9/11.

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The 'Fascinating Fascism' of Sarah Palin

Ariel Gonzalez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fascism, Sinclair Lewis, Stephen King, Leni Riefenstahl, Ronald Reagan, 2012 Election, Susan Sontag, George W. Bush, Sarah Palin, Umberto Eco, It Can't Happen Here, Conservatism, Barack Obama, The Dead Zone, Politics News
Ariel Gonzalez

Sarah Palin lacks optimism and humor, two of Reagan's strongest traits. If she runs, it'll be on a platform of grievance. And her speeches will drip with bilious sarcasm.

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Confessions of a Word Junkie

Caroline Hagood | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Charlie Kaufman, The Orchid Thief, Susan Orlean, Adaptation, Writing, Susan Sontag, Inspiration, The Inner Life, Healthy Living News
Caroline Hagood

Word junkies are seldom without their trusty accessory, the psychic map of creative journeys yet to be had. For me, this has always been my computer.

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Loeb Revises His Soul of a Citizen

Byron Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Susan Sontag, Soul of a Citizen, Paul Loeb, Books News
Byron Williams

America has made significant changes since Paul Loeb initially wrote Soul of a Citizen; it's time for new voices to once again be inspired by this groundbreaking effort.

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To Publish or Not to Publish

Ruthie Ackerman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Monrovia, Mogadishu, Black Hawk Down, Ceasefire Liberia, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Haiti, Susan Sontag, Earthquake, Mob Justice, Sirleaf, Somalia, Liberia, Justice, Vigilante Justice, Citizen Media, World News
Ruthie Ackerman

Americans rarely see photos of the dead, especially their own, in mainstream media outlets. The U.S. media has been trained to tiptoe around publishing images of American corpses, not wanting to outrage the families of dead soldiers and citizens.

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Culture Zohn: Marlene Dumas Tackles the Walls Between Israel and Palestine

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Benjamin Netanyahu, Marlene Dumas, Desmond Tutu, Marina Abramovic, Susan Sontag, William Kentridge, New York News
Patricia Zohn

2010-03-19-pull.jpg Dumas exposes self deception and helps see this conflict in a new, well-timed exhibition in Chelsea.

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Poetry So Bad It's Good

Poetry Magazine | Abigail Deutsch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Stuffed Owl, Alexander Pope, Bad Poetry, Good Bad Poetry, Poetry, Bad Poetry Contests, Susan Sontag, Books, Good Poetry, Books News

Abigail Deutsch The Poetry Foundation What are we to do with lines like these? We have seen thee, queen of cheese, Lying quietly at your ease, Gentl...

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Mentors, Muses & Monsters

Elizabeth Benedict | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sigrid Nunez, Jane Smiley, Susan Sontag, Jonathan Safran Foer, Mentors, Books News
Elizabeth Benedict

Given the chance to thank the people who changed their lives, several prominent writers made the decision to write their hearts out and let us in on stories they have carried around for years.

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Empathy Fatigue and What the Press Can Do About It

Jamil Zaki | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Neuroscience, Empathy, Susan Sontag, Psychology, Hurricane Katrina, Media, Press, Prejudice, Barack Obama, Media News
Jamil Zaki

The "CNN effect" describes how, by airing images of suffering, news outlets can create enormous pressure for governments to intervene, fueled by public outcry over the suffering of others.

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The Shelf Talker: Butterscotch, and Prairie Home Companion

Kevin Smokler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Literature, James Ellroy, Authors, Books, Susan Sontag, Zocalo, Phillip Lopate, Touring, Los Angeles, Reading, Lynn Freed, Joe Meno, Media News
Kevin Smokler

Never mind TST would watch Lynn Freed read the back of a soup can. Give her 10 minutes and she'd have that soup can speaking Dutch and flirting with a bag of soda crackers. Simply one of the classiest acts in contemporary literature. Makes you feel smarter just hanging around.

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How Recent Documentary Films May Have Paved the Way to Embrace the Figure of Barack Obama

Penelope Andrew | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dalton Trumbo, Fta, Ellen Spiro, Theater of War, Zana Briski, Trauma, War, Francine Parker, Susan Sontag, Phil Donahue, Jane Fonda, Fog of War, Spike Lee, Documentaries, Bertolt Brecht, Invasion of Iraq, Body of War, Politics, Ross Kauffman, Michael Moore Fahrenheit 9/11, Tomas Young, Vietnam War, Lila Lipscomb, Errol Morris, The Congressional Black Caucus, Heddy Honigmann, John Walter, Presidential Elections, Entertainment News
Penelope Andrew

To look at the escalating popularity of the documentary film is to enter an interesting, complicated, and collectively psychoanalytic exploration of the role of desire and dreams in a time of mass confusion.

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Last Night at Nikos

Norman MacAfee | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: LOOT: Lies of the Times, Dana Gioia, ?€ ?€œLife During the Coup, Semiotext(e), Greenwich Village, Union Square, Tom Disch, ?€ ?€œthe Coming of Fascism to America, The Fall, Nikos Magazine and Smoke Shop, Bob Holman, One Class, The School of Athens, G.H.W. Bush, Greece, Dustin Hoffman, Weather Underground, ?€œBartleby the Scrivener?, Madonna, Susan Sontag, Gulf War, Green Market, Judith Malina, ?€ Herman Melville, New York Times, ?€œI Am Astro Place, Bowery Poetry Club, Jefferson Market Library Garden, Tarsem, Chomskometer, Raphael, ?€œPolysexuality?, Healthy Living News
Norman MacAfee

"I Am Astro Place" I wrote in the 1980s as a screenplay, "Astro Place," about some cultural and political people living near Astor Place in the East Village in the fraught years 1984 to 2001.

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Great Head at the Midtown Tunnel

Joyce McFadden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Miley Cyrus, Betty Freidan, Tina Brown, Susan Sontag, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker Magazine, Gloria Steinem, Demi Moore, The Office, Sexuality in the Media, Annie Leibovitz, Media News
Joyce McFadden

The naked woman was on her back, cupping a breast in each hand, with her legs crossed and bent at the knees. Next to her was an iced bucket of twinkling long neck beers grazing her thigh.

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