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

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

Variously compared to Irish writer Samuel Beckett and Russia's Fyodor Dostoyevsky, late American critic Susan Sontag called Krasznahorkai "the contemporary Hungarian master of apocalypse who inspires comparison with Gogol and Melville".

From Barron's • Oct. 9, 2025

To get a little pretentious about this latest ultra-silly Sony Marvel movie, Susan Sontag would have loved “Madame Web.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 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

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