Susan Sontag (1933-2004) is the author of four novels, The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover, and In America, which won the 2000 National Book Award for Fiction; a collection of stories, I, Etcetera; several plays, including Alice in Bed and Lady from the Sea; and seven works of nonfiction, among them Where the Stress Falls and Regarding the Pain of Others. Her books have been translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001, she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work; in 2003, she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.
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It Was Anna’s Diary
June 13, 2002
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In Jerusalem
June 21, 2001
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Censored in Palestine
October 17, 1996
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On Wei Jingsheng
February 15, 1996
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The Case of Wei Jingsheng
February 15, 1996
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The Case of Ken Saro-Wiwa
April 20, 1995
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Godot Comes to Sarajevo
October 21, 1993
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An Urgent Appeal from Pen American Center
February 11, 1993
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Writers in Prison
November 8, 1990
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Help Salman Rushdie!
April 12, 1990
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An Open Letter to Fidel Castro
February 2, 1989
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In Korean Jails
November 24, 1988
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AIDS and Its Metaphors
October 27, 1988
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Arrests in Poland
August 14, 1986
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Crackdown in Hungary
May 29, 1986
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The Case of Daud Haider
October 24, 1985
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The Ali Taygun Case
March 28, 1985
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The Case of Miklos Duray
March 31, 1983
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Help Save “Que Me”
May 13, 1982
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An Appeal to General Jaruzelski
March 18, 1982
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The Polish Crisis: Three Statements
January 21, 1982
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Missing Person
December 17, 1981
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Reaching for the Gun
November 19, 1981
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Mind as Passion
September 25, 1980
The Tongue Set Free: Remembrance of a European Childhood by Elias Canetti, translated by Joachim Neugroschel
The Conscience of Words by Elias Canetti, translated by Joachim Neugroschel
Earwitness: Fifty Characters by Elias Canetti, translated by Joachim Neugroschel
The Human Province by Elias Canetti, translated by Joachim Neugroschel
The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit by Elias Canetti, translated by J.A. Underwood
Crowds and Power by Elias Canetti, translated by Carol Stewart
Auto-da-Fé by Elias Canetti, translated by C.V. Wedgwood
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Syberberg’s ‘Hitler’
May 29, 1980
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Remembering Barthes
May 15, 1980
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Eye of the Storm
February 21, 1980
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Free the Czechs
December 6, 1979
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Boycott Taba
October 11, 1979
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The Last Intellectual
October 12, 1978
Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings
by Walter Benjamin, edited by Peter Demetz, translated by Edmund Jephcott
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Disease as Political Metaphor
February 23, 1978
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Images of Illness
February 9, 1978
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Illness as Metaphor
January 26, 1978
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Vautrin’s Cigar
October 27, 1977
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Photography Unlimited
June 23, 1977
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Photography in Search of Itself
January 20, 1977
Looking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art by John Szarkowski
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An Exchange on Leni Riefenstahl
September 18, 1975
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A Special Supplement: The Meaning of Vietnam
June 12, 1975
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Feminism and Fascism: An Exchange
March 20, 1975
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Credit for Kracauer
March 6, 1975
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Fascinating Fascism
February 6, 1975
The Last of the Nuba
by Leni Riefenstahl
SS Regalia by Jack Pia
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Photography: The Beauty Treatment
November 28, 1974
William H. Fox Talbot: Inventor of the Negative-Positive Process by André Jammes
French Primitive Photography introduction by Minor White, commentaries by André Jammes, by Robert Sobieszek
Paul Strand: A Retrospective Monograph, Vol. I, The Years 1915-1946; Vol. II, The Years 1950-1968 by Paul Strand
The Daybooks of Edward Weston, Vol. I, Mexico
by Edward Weston
The Daybooks of Edward Weston, Vol. II, California
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Shooting America
April 18, 1974
“Fotografa di un’Epoca: Ghitta Carell” Special issue of Skema Anno V, Numero 8/9
Men Without Masks: Faces of Germany 1910-1938 by August Sander, with an introduction by Golo Mann
Dwellers at the Source: Southwestern Indian Photographs of A. C. Vroman, 1895-1904 by William Webb, by Robert A. Weinstein
In This Proud Land: America 1935-1943 As Seen in the Farm Security Administration Photographs by Roy Emerson Stryker, by Nancy Wood
As They Were by Tuli Kupferberg, by Sylvia Topp
Down Home by Bob Adelman, text edited by Susan Hall
Wisconsin Death Trip by Michael Lesy, with a preface by Warren Susman
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Freak Show
November 15, 1973
Walker Evans introduction by John Szarkowski
Diane Arbus edited and designed by Doon Arbus, by Marvin Israel
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Photography
October 18, 1973
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Ford’s Better Idea
January 25, 1973
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On Paul Goodman
September 21, 1972
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The Mandel Case
November 20, 1969
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The Committee to Defend the Conspiracy
June 19, 1969
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Violence in Oakland
May 9, 1968
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Protest
March 14, 1968
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Ionesco: the Theater of the Banal
July 9, 1964
Notes and Counter Notes: Writings on the Theatre by Eugène Ionesco, translated by Donald Watson
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Odd Man Out
March 5, 1964
Manhood by Michel Leiris, Translated from the French by Richard Howard
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Gogol’s Grandson
January 23, 1964
Gogol’s Wife and Other Stories
by Tommaso Landolfi, translated by Raymond Rosenthal, by John Longrigg, by Wayland Young
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A Hero of our Time
November 28, 1963
Structural Anthropology by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Translated from the French by Claire Jacobson, by Brook Grundfest Schoepf
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The Ideal Husband
September 26, 1963
Notebooks, 1935-42 by Albert Camus, Translated from the French by Philip Thody
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Simone Weil
February 1, 1963
Selected Essays by Simone Weil, translated by Richard Rees