Sontag’s High-Toned Tale: Her Brains Center Stage

In America , by Susan Sontag. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 387 pages, $26.

No way to sweeten the pill: Susan Sontag is a powerful thinker, as smart as she’s supposed to be, and a better writer, sentence for sentence, than anyone who now wears the tag “intellectual”–but she can’t seem to write a great novel. Read More