On Women
Merve Emre, David Rieff · 2023 · book
A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag’s feminism, gathering early essays on aging, equality, beauty, sexuality, and fascism Susan Sontag was a genius, and “an incomparable literary heavyweight” (The New York Times). As a critic she is best remembered for her writing on art and culture, as the author of canonical works like Against Interpretation, On Photography, and “Notes on ‘Camp.’” She was also a feminist icon: an activist, a radical, an openly queer intellectual raging agains…
