Styles of Radical Will by Susan SontagRequirements: .M4A/.M4B reader, 275 MBOverview: Styles of Radical Will, Susan Sontag’s second collection of essays, extends the investigations she undertook in Against Interpretation with essays on film, literature, politics, and a groundbreaking study of pornography. In “The Aesthetics of Silence”, Sontag examines how silence mediates the role of art […]
On Women by Susan SontagRequirements: .M4A/.M4B reader, 351 MBOverview: A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag’s writing on women, gathering early essays on aging, equality, beauty, sexuality, and fascism. Susan Sontag was one of the most formidable, original, and influential thinkers of the last century. “The most interesting ideas are heresies,” she remarked, and […]
Where the Stress Falls: Essays by Susan Sontag, read by Tavia GilbertRequirements: .M4A/.M4B reader, 362.1mbOverview: Two decades of indispensable work by a great American writer – more than 40 longer and shorter pieces that illustrate a deeply felt, kaleidoscopic array of interests, passions, observations, and ideas. Thirty-five years after her first collection, the classic Against […]
As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980 by Susan Sontag, edited by David RieffRequirements: .ePUB reader, 385kbOverview: This, the second of three volumes of Susan Sontag’s journals and notebooks, begins where the first volume left off, in the middle of the 1960s. It traces and documents Sontag’s evolution from fledgling participant in […]
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan SontagRequirements: .ePUB, .MOBI/.AZW reader, 876 KBOverview: In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as “one of the most liberating books of its time.” A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors […]