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A review by brice_mo
Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays by Sontag, Susan Sontag
4.0
Nobody does it like Sontag.
Aside from her ability to make cultural criticism feel as stylish as it is essential, Susan Sontag also had such a gift for meaningfully limiting her scope. I've read so many authors who attempt to follow her model—or worse, improve upon it—and they almost always lose focus as they get caught in their own web of ideas. Conversely, everything Sontag wrote seems deliberately self-limiting, and that's what makes her work feel almost limitless.
Aside from her ability to make cultural criticism feel as stylish as it is essential, Susan Sontag also had such a gift for meaningfully limiting her scope. I've read so many authors who attempt to follow her model—or worse, improve upon it—and they almost always lose focus as they get caught in their own web of ideas. Conversely, everything Sontag wrote seems deliberately self-limiting, and that's what makes her work feel almost limitless.