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
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... of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art’), and Styles of Radical Will, were akin to Bob Dylan going electric. For a large portion of the 1960s and early 1970s the mass-market paperback of Against Interpretation, with Sontag’s face on the cover, was in every countercultural kit bag, a pocket bible to ward off vampires and philistines. In with the ...

Barely under Control

Jenny Turner: Who’s in charge?, 7 May 2015

... its governance. It’s expecting to see an action plan this month. Hilary Mantel​ ’s Thomas Cromwell thinks ‘account books form a narrative as engaging as any tale of sea monsters or cannibals.’ Account books, and policies and procedures, and agendas and scatterplots and laws: all these things tell stories about an organisation, and they are ...