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,
“... cigarette smoke hanging over noisy rooms on the Upper West Side or Greenwich Village where Dwight Macdonald, Alfred Kazin, Philip Rahv, Clement Greenberg and a supporting cast of kibitzers engaged in rhetorical (and, in Greenberg’s case, actual) fisticuffs. Like many men of ideas with impossibly high standards of intellectual probity, they could also be ... ”
