64 results for '"Susan Sontag"'

A brilliant, clear-eyed consideration of the visual representation of violence in our culture—its ubiquity, meanings, and effects. Considered one of the greatest critics of her generation, Susan...

Susan Sontag’s celebrated essays on cancer and AIDS now available in one volume.In 1978, Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as “one of the most liberating books of...

One cold Moscow night, Comrade Tulayev, a high government official, is shot dead on the street, and the search for the killer begins. In this panoramic vision of the Soviet Great Terror, the...

-- Susan Sontag

"A volume of Adorno is equivalent to a whole shelf of books on literature." —Susan SontagA reflection on everyday existence in the ‘sphere of consumption of late Capitalism’, this work is Adorno’s...

A reissue of Susan Sontag’s classic first collection, featuring some of her most beloved writing—on art, life, camp, and criticism—that cemented her legacy as one of the brightest thinkers of, and...

A new edition of the cult classic photography book by the legendary Peter Hujar, featuring a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser.The 1976 publication of Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life...

The Disability Studies Reader collects, for the first time, representative texts from the newly emerging field of disability studies. This volume represents a major advance in presenting the most...

"This is criticism at its best." ―Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles TimesWriting in the tradition of Susan Sontag and Elaine Scarry, Maggie Nelson has emerged as one of our foremost cultural critics with...

The intellectual and the popular: Irving Howe and John Waters, Susan Sontag and Ethel Rosenberg, Dwight MacDonald and Bill Cosby, Amiri Baraka and Mick Jagger, Andrea Dworkin and Grace Jones, Andy...

For over forty years, Leo Marx has studied American culture as a dialectical process, a fruitful contest between conflicting ways of seeing the world and expressing its meaning. The Pilot and the...

Kathy Acker's practice of literary appropriation and pastiche made her notorious--as a rebel and a groundbreaker--when Great Expectations was first published in 1982. Here, she begins rewriting...

This updated and revised edition of a popular text focuses on the symbiotic connection between the media and interpersonal relations. Inter/Media brings together over forty essays, many of them...

Native Informant is Leo Braudy's first book after his widely acclaimed and award-winning history of fame, The Frenzy of Renown. With a verve that breaks down the boundaries between film, literature,...

A new, ecological approach to images by a renowned philosopherWhen Susan Sontag first proposed the idea of an “ecology of images,” she meant it as an exhortation to be vigilant against the vast...

A new, compelling collection of essays by Sven Birkerts, "one of America's most distinguished, eloquent servants of the poetry and fiction that matter" (Susan Sontag)Reading, the mind's traffic in...

The Rings of Saturn--with its curious archive of photographs--records a walking tour of the eastern coast of England. A few of the things which cross the path and mind of its narrator (who both is...

Illuminating the photographer's contributions to New York's Downtown art scene and her acute feminist workPhotographer Marcia Resnick (b. 1950) earned recognition as part of the legendary Downtown...

What is the purpose of art in a world on fire? Can it be a genuine form of political resistance?In this exhilarating work, Amber Massie-Blomfield brings together stories of remarkable acts of...

This singular collection is nothing less than a political, spiritual, and intensely personal record of America’s tumultuous modern age, as experienced by our foremost critics, commentators,...