All That Gab
James Wolcott: The Upsides of Sontag’s Downsides, 24 October 2019
Sontag: Her Life
by Benjamin Moser.
Allen Lane, 832 pp., £30, September 2019,978 0 241 00348 0 Show More
by Benjamin Moser.
Allen Lane, 832 pp., £30, September 2019,
“... song. A more intimate tone marked the personal eulogy to the social theorist and activist Paul Goodman, which sounded as if it was coming from a real, vulnerable person rather than a lapidary inscriber. ‘Fascinating Fascism’, Sontag’s dismantling of the cult, canonisation and revisionist whitewashing of Leni Riefenstahl, struck like lightning when it ... ”
