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,
“... was the rustle of the Holy Ghost, hers an oracular hooga-booga. The objections that Howe, Rahv, John Simon, the art critic Hilton Kramer and other keepers of the scrolls lodged against her were as much about the 1960s as they were about her, for no one in the Family (as Norman Podhoretz, a former Partisan Review-er, dubbed them) personified the 1960s more ... ”
