Praise for Susan Sontag
"The cumulative effect of her writing is to stimulate the flow of argument. . .you might say she has diverted the mainstream; her private islands of thought now look like the territory on which we've always lived. . .She stands for what is articulate, independent, exploratory: for self as a work in progress. –Hilary Mantel, The Los Angeles Times Book Review
Susan Sontag is a powerful thinker, as smart as she's supposed to be, and a better writer, sentence for sentence, than anyone who now wears the tag 'intellectual.' –
Adam Begley, The New York Observer [Sontag is] one of our very few brand-name intellectuals. . .the bearer of the standard of high seriousness in a culture that has essentially capitulated to the easy lifting of the ironic mode or the ready clasp of pure entertainment. –
Sven Birkets, The Yale Review "We wouldn't recognize our postwar intellectual history without Susan Sontag." –
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