Unfortunately his definition does not explain someone like Susan Sontag--a critic with no sense of direction. Against Interpretation has everything wrong with it. With no effort at all one can ...

documenting a vast trail of emotional wreckage of the type more often found in showbiz magazines. If Susan Sontag was suspicious of interpretation, as she argued in a famous collection of essays, it’s ...

Susan Sontag, a philosopher, novelist and human rights activist ... Sontag’s other influential works on aesthetics include Against Interpretation (1966), in which she developed the idea of ...

Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives ...

Some of Susan Sontag’s photographs: Corpses of tortured Chinese ... Already an intellectual celebrity for her collections Against Interpretation and Styles of Radical Will (which included “Hanoi”), ...