Susan Sontag: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Studies of Sontag’s life and work include Sohnya Sayres, Susan Sontag: The Elegaic Modernist (1990); and Liam Kennedy, Susan Sontag: Mind as Passion (1995).

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Add new Web site: Humanities LibreTexts - Susan Sontag — Image Saturation, Witnessing, Voyeurism, and How Repeated Exposure Shapes Viewer Response. Sep 11, 2026
Anniversary information added. Jan 12, 2026
Add new Web site: PBS - ETV Classics - Susan Sontag. Dec 24, 2025
Anniversary information added. Dec 24, 2025
Add new Web site: Fresh Air Archive - Susan Sontag. Oct 31, 2025
Add new Web site: NPR - Listening to Susan Sontag, One More Time. Sep 18, 2025
Add new Web site: CBC Radio - Susan Sontag Interview from 2000. Aug 08, 2025
Add new Web site: ABC listen - Late Night Live - The Scandal of Susan Sontag. May 17, 2025
Add new Web site: BBC Sounds - Susan Sontag's Against Interpretation. Dec 11, 2024
Add new Web site: The Guardian - 'The pictures will not go away': Susan Sontag's lifelong obsession with suffering. Aug 23, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Apr 09, 2024
Add new Web site: Literary Ladies Guide - Susan Sontag, American Iconoclast. Mar 08, 2024
Add new Web site: Los Angeles Times - Obituary of Author Susan Sontag. Jan 02, 2023
Add new Web site: National Endowment for the Humanities - Susan Sontag, Essayist and So Much Else. Oct 17, 2022
Media added. Jun 30, 2022
Add new Web site: The Guardian - Obituary of Susan Sontag. Jan 27, 2017
Add new Web site: Los Angeles Times - Author Susan Sontag Dies. Jan 27, 2017
Add new Web site: The New York Times - Susan Sontag, Social Critic With Verve, Dies at 71. Jan 27, 2017
Add new Web site: Amercian Society of Authors and Writers - Biography of Susan Sontag. May 09, 2014
Add new Web site: Jewish Women's Archive - Biography of Susan Sontag. May 08, 2014
Add new Web site: Susan Sontag Foundation - Biography of Susan Sontag. Apr 22, 2013
Updated to mention the publication of At the Same Time (2007). Jun 10, 2009
Media added. Jun 10, 2009
Added new Web site: Pegasos - Biography of Susan Sontag (1933-2004). Dec 17, 2008
Article revised. Feb 18, 2005
Article revised. Jan 13, 2000
Article added to new online database. Oct 27, 1999
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