susan sontag

"One of my oldest crusades is against the distinction between thought and feeling, which is really the basis of all anti-intellectual views: the heart and the head, thinking and feeling, fantasy and judgment . . . and I don't believe it's true. . ......

Susan Sontag's 1997 text, On Photography, brought photographic theory into the university classroom with its staunch defence of the medium as art and inspired a new wave of Marxist Criticism in the field.  Sontag explains the way in which we are a......

Photography: History and Theory introduces students to both the history of photography and critical theory. From its inception in the nineteenth century, photography has instigated a series of theoretical debates. In this new text, Jae Emerling th......

"The Tanners is a contender for Funniest Book of the Year."—The Village Voice The Tanners, Robert Walser’s amazing 1907 novel of twenty chapters, is now presented in English for the very first time, by the award-winning translator Susa......

The Assistant by Robert Walser—who was admired greatly by Kafka, Musil, Walter Benjamin, and W. G. Sebald—is now presented in English for the very first time. Robert Walser is an overwhelmingly original author with many ardent fans: J.......

Throughout the history of psychoanalysis, the study of creativity and fine art has been a special concern.ã Psychoanalytic Studies of Creativity, Greed and Fine Art: Making Contact with the Self makes a distinct contribution to the psychoanalytic ......

Susan Sontag on teen life Eve Babitz on bodysurfing Arna Bontemps on the shimmy Victoria Dailey on bookshops and backrooms Victor and Mary Lau Valle on pulque Vin Scully on Koufax Hector Tobar on inner landscapes Clancy Sigal on gangster ch......

a mélange of rocknroll, blues, downbeat jazz, and murky existential wit that betrays a secret pop heart 13 MP3 Songs ROCK: Roots Rock, POP: Quirky Details: The band? Well, let''s see: Fellaheen, for the moment, is Bruce Hanson (along with a bu......

A lyrical mélange of rock ''n'' roll, scratchy blues, downbeat jazz, and murky existential wit. 12 MP3 Songs in this album (45:41) ! Related styles: ROCK: Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, FOLK: Alternative Folk People who are interested in Tom Waits ......

Skillfully blending melodic alternative rock, rootsy Americana, gritty blues, and downbeat jazz into a fresh, compelling and harmonic synthesis that conjures a hypnotic, smoky atmosphere throughout. 13 MP3 Songs in this album (54:30) ! Related st......

Is the cinema, as writers from David Denby to Susan Sontag have claimed, really dead? Contrary to what we have been led to believe, films are better than ever—we just can’t see the good ones. Movie Wars cogently explains how movies are ......

Alive with insight, delight and Dyer's characteristic irreverence, this book offers a guide around the cultural maze, mapping a route through the worlds of literature, art, photography and music. Across ten years' worth of essays, Working the Room......

An irresistible literary treat: a memoir of the social and sexual lives of New York City's cultural and intellectual in-crowd in the tumultuous 1970s, from acclaimed author Edmund White. In the New York of the 1970s, in the wake of Stonewall and i......

Michel Houellebecq, author of five novels including Atomised and Platform, has become possibly the world’s most famous literary pessimist. His work declares that life is painful and disappointing, death is terrifying, and the human condition......

This delightful book of writer-to-writer correspondence joins a full shelf of volumes in the genre, yet it is perhaps the first set of such letters ever transacted via the Internet. Also unusual, at least for correspondents in the twenty......

“This is criticism at its best.”—Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times Writing in the tradition of Susan Sontag and Elaine Scarry, Maggie Nelson has emerged as one of our foremost cultural critics with this landmark work about repre......

This issue of Feminist Review concentrates on cultural studies: the modernist style of Susan Sontag, fashion and representation, and a very witty look at lesbian photographs. Editor: The Feminist Review Collective Publisher: Routledge Illustratio......

One of America’s foremost novelists and critics, Cynthia Ozick has won praise and provoked debate for taking on challenging literary, historical, and moral issues. Her new collection of spirited essays focuses on the essential joys of great ......

Shortlisted for the 1998 Los Angeles Times Book Award in Fiction: "Stunning and strange . . . Sebald has done what every writer dreams of doing. . . . The book is like a dream you want to last forever. . . . It glows with the radiance and resilien......

From the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize The latest novel from “the contemporary Hungarian master of the apocalypse” (Susan Sontag) Seiobo — a Japanese goddess — has a peach tree in her garden that blossom......