Sontag: Her Life and Work
By: Benjamin Moser
4.21
Format: 832 pages, ebook
The definitive portrait of one of the American Century’s most towering intellectuals: her writing a…
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1. Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays
By: Susan Sontag
3.69
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
This third essay collection by America's leading essayist brings together her most important critic… read more
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- art
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2. Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
By: Susan Sontag , David Rieff
4.00
Format: 256 pages,
Renacida es el primer volumen de los diarios de Susan Sontag, editado por su hijo David Rieff. Ensa… read more
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3. Paris in the Present Tense
By: Mark Helprin
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Mark Helprin's powerful, rapturous new novel is set in a present-day Paris caught between violent u… read more
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4. Susan Sontag: The Complete Rolling Stone Interview
By: Jonathan Cott
3.41
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
"One of my oldest crusades is against the distinction between thought and feeling, which is really … read more
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5. Against Interpretation and Other Essays
By: Susan Sontag
3.28
Format: 5 pages, Paperback
First published in 1966, this celebrated book--Sontag's first collection of essays--quickly became … read more
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6. Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and Its Metaphors
By: Susan Sontag
3.28
Format: 5 pages,
In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweekas "one of the … read more
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7. On Photography
By: Susan Sontag
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images which are continually … read more
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- art
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"The painter constructs, the photographer discloses."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
"Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
"Cameras miniaturize experience, transform history into spectacle."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
"Una fotografía es a la vez una pseudopresencia y un signo de ausencia."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
8. Regarding the Pain of Others
By: Susan Sontag
3.28
Format: 5 pages, Paperback
Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual r… read more
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9. How to Listen to and Understand Great Music (Great Courses, #700)
By: Robert Greenberg
3.59
Format: None pages, Audio CD
Great music is a language unto its own, a means of communication of unmatched beauty and genius. An… read more
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10. Styles of Radical Will
By: Susan Sontag
4.29
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
Styles of Radical Will, Susan Sontag's second collection of essays, extends the investigations she … read more
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11. The History of Jazz
By: Ted Gioia
4.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Jazz is the most colorful and varied art form in the world, and it was born in one of the most colo… read more
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12. Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag
By: Sigrid Nunez
5.00
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
Sigrid Nunez was an aspiring writer when she first met Susan Sontag, already a legendary figure kno… read more
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13. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
By: Olivia Laing
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more
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"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
14. The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
By: William Egginton
4.28
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explored the greatest enigmas in the universe—the nature of … read more
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15. Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm
By: Emmeline Clein
3.86
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A personal and cultural look at the dark underbelly of Western beauty standards and the lethal cult… read more
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16. On Women
By: Susan Sontag
3.61
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag’s writing on women, gathering early essays on ag… read more
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"Dividing time into Past, Present, and Future suggests that reality is distributed equally among three parts, but in fact the past is the most real of all. The future is, inevitably, an accumulation o…"-Susan Sontag, On Women
17. After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations
By: Eric H. Cline
3.84
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping sequel to his bestselling 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the story of what happened a… read more
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18. Białe noce
By: Urszula Honek
3.77
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Z pozoru nic się nie dzieje: mała podgórska miejscowość, kilka osób, nieuchwytny czas. A jednak świ… read more
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19. Molly
By: Blake Butler
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more
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20. Sontag: Her Life and Work
By: Benjamin Moser
4.21
Format: 832 pages, ebook
The definitive portrait of one of the American Century’s most towering intellectuals: her writing a… read more
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21. Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
By: Marcia Chatelain
3.85
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Often blamed for the rising rates of obesity and diabetes among black Americans, fast food restaura… read more
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