Susan Sontag, one of the most prominent New York intellectuals of her generation, was a writer, critic, and political activist. She was born on 16 January 1933 and died of leukemia in 2004, just two weeks before her seventy-second birthday. At the age of fourteen, Sontag began keeping a journal. Over the course of her […]

On Susan Sontag’s Birthday: To Love Is to Be Flayed