Sontag

American  

[son-tag] / ˈsɒn tæg /

noun

1. Susan, 1933–2004, U.S. critic, novelist, and essayist.

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Sontag British  

/ ˈsɒntæɡ /

noun

1. Susan. 1933–2004, US intellectual and essayist, noted esp for her writings on modern culture. Her works include `Notes on Camp' (1964), `Against Interpretation' (1968), On Photography (1977), Illness as Metaphor (1978), and the novel The Volcano Lover (1992)

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Example Sentences

“Real art,” Sontag wrote, “has the capacity to make us nervous.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

The book’s final pages reveal Smith continuing to grieve, mourning the loss of other loved ones — her parents, Susan Sontag, Sam Shepard.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2025

American critic Susan Sontag crowned Krasznahorkai the "master of the apocalypse" after having read his second book "The Melancholy of Resistance" in 1989, the Academy said.

From Barron's • Oct. 9, 2025

It's camp in the best sense — what Sontag must have had in mind when she described the state of being "bad to the point of enjoyable."

From Salon • Jan. 27, 2024

August Sontag was only twenty-eight years of age when thus suddenly cut off.

From North-Pole Voyages by Mudge, Zachariah Atwell