The forthcoming biography by Benjamin Moser, Sontag: Her Life, details extensive evidence that Sontag may, in fact, be the author of her ex-husband’s biggest book, Freud: The Mind of the… Read more »

Excellent tidings for those persons of taste and refinement who’ve been breathlessly awaiting the final season of Broad City: Abbi Jacobson, who plays Val Abbi on the show, has a book of essays forthcoming this… Read more »

Following the attacks in Paris on November 13, the French Booksellers Association (Syndicat de la Librairie Française, or SLF) has released a reading list designed to help people better understand the complex… Read more »

Yesterday the New York Public Library’s Board of Trustees announced that the library had acquired approximately 3,000 linear feet of editorial materials from the New York Review of Books archive. The papers date… Read more »

This fall HBO will be airing an “intimate and nuanced investigation” into the life of writer, activist, filmmaker, and critic Susan Sontag. Regarding Susan Sontag already premiered at the Tribeca Film… Read more »

In a post on The Millions last Friday, Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin examined the use of authors’ archival material in the digital age: After centuries of shuffling papers, biographers must now deal with… Read more »

Earlier this week, Amnesty International criticized The Globe Theatre for planning to take its production of Hamlet to North Korea. Amnesty called for The Globe to read up on the… Read more »

Sometime last year, I pinned a sheet of paper above my desk with the title “Women Writers” and began forming a list of names of female writers that I had… Read more »

Do you tell people you’re writing a novel? It might be better to go with something like, “I am trying to write a novel,” because if you are indeed tackling… Read more »

In her 1965 essay “The Imagination of Disaster”, Susan Sontag discussed the meaning and power of the catastrophic imagery of science-fiction. The thesis of her argument has now become a… Read more »