Sontag

American

[son-tag] / ˈsɒn tæg /

noun

Susan, 1933–2004, U.S. critic, novelist, and essayist.

Sontag British

/ ˈsɒntæɡ /

noun

Susan. 1933–2004, US intellectual and essayist, noted esp for her writings on modern culture. Her works include `Notes on Camp' (1964), `Against Interpretation' (1968), On Photography (1977), Illness as Metaphor (1978), and the novel The Volcano Lover (1992)

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The conversation ends, he puts the coffee pot on, the phone rings again: It’s Sontag.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

American critic Susan Sontag crowned Krasznahorkai the "master of the apocalypse" after having read his second book "The Melancholy of Resistance" in 1989, the Academy said.

From Barron's • Oct. 9, 2025

Sontag noted that camp functions as “a private code, a badge of identity even.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2025

It's camp in the best sense — what Sontag must have had in mind when she described the state of being "bad to the point of enjoyable."

From Salon • Jan. 27, 2024

At midnight of the eleventh day a sudden tramp was heard on deck, and immediately Sontag, Ohlsen, and Petersen entered the cabin.

From North-Pole Voyages by Mudge, Zachariah Atwell

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