Podcast Episodes featuring Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag: Her Life and Work

City Arts & Lectures - November 17, 2019 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 322 ratings
This week, we pay tribute to the activist, essayist, and critic Susan Sontag. 15 years after her death, Sontag's perspectives on language, sexuality, and politics still resonate. She elevated art forms like film and photography, and believed that dedication to high culture was in itse...

Landmark: Susan Sontag's Against Interpretation

Arts & Ideas - September 18, 2019 21:45 - 51 minutes ★★★★ - 268 ratings
Lauren Elkin, Lisa Appignanesi and biographer Ben Moser debate Susan Sontag's life and ideas with presenter Laurence Scott, focusing in on her 1966 essay collection, which argued for a new way of approaching art and culture. Ben Moser is the author of Sontag: Her life and work which is out now....