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 was Susan’s idea,” Leibovitz says on Tuesday, referring to writer Susan Sontag, her partner until Sontag’s death in 2004.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 13, 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

On the 18th of the month Henriette Sontag made her last bow before the public, and retired from the operatic world upon her marriage to Count Rossi.

From Garcia the Centenarian And His Times Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science by Mackinlay, M. (Malcolm) Sterling