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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Sontag

His specialty was portraits, many of them of well-known figures from the overlapping artistic-intellectual circles of which he was a part: William Burroughs, Fran Lebowitz and Susan Sontag, to name a few.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 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

Emily Bessoir and Lina Sontag qualified to make their Olympic debuts playing for Germany.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2024

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

Yet was it my fault that I remembered in the same part the syren Sontag, and the enchantress Malibran?

From Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. I (of 3) by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)