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This new collection of 70s journalism exposes a sexist and wrongheaded essayist with an unwarranted reputation

Susan Sontag’s mixed feelings towards the movement that propelled her career

With an aesthetic dependent on novelty and spectacle, and a structure that’s both disjointed and drawn-out, Eurovision – for some – cannot fail to fail. In its “failed seriousness” (the phrase writer Susan Sontag used to describe “camp”), the song contest has all the exaggerated expressiveness that audiences associate with…

Life writing is usually a conventional business, but these writers take on the job by discarding the rules, with thrilling results

A giant gorilla holding a Volkswagen … the World’s Largest Chest of Drawers … US highways bristle with idiosyncratic wonders

Alert the literati — Susan Sontag is getting a biopic and Kristen Stewart is set to play the late writer-provocateur.

This year marks 50 years since Susan Sontag’s essay Photography was published in the New York Review of Books. Slightly edited and renamed In Plato’s Cave, it would become the first essay in her collection On Photography, which has never been out of print.

The author has published 10,000 words since being left paralysed – about the able-bodied, sexual positions and racist taunts. From Hilary Mantel to Audre Lorde, we look at how illness changes a writer

Lisa Rinna leaving the franchise sparked a wave of communication from concerned friends, while asking which version someone prefers is the perfect ice-breaker. Welcome to Real Housewives obsession

If Franz Kafka were to reconceive "The Metamorphosis" for our era, he might decide to ditch the novella in favor of a series of surreal TikToks — Gregor Samsa as eyes and mouth green-screened onto a picture of a roach jacked from the web.

In theater, camp can equal freedom as an actor. I think it can offer the same in your holiday kitchen