Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Sontag, Susan

  • A Love of Life Inordinate and Idolatrous?

    The case of Susan Sontag.  Top o' the Stack.

  • Susan Sontag on Elias Canetti

    From Granta, 1 March 1982. This passage in particular resonated with me.  It reads well with 'weblog' substituted for 'notebook.' The notebook is the perfect literary form for an eternal student, someone who has no subject or, rather, whose subject is ‘everything’. It allows entries of all lengths and shapes and degrees of impatience and…