David Rieff
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David Rieff is an American nonfiction writer and policy analyst. His books have focused on issues of immigration, international conflict, and humanitarianism.
Rieff in 2017
Susan Sontag
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Susan Lee Sontag was an American writer and critic. She primarily wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp' ", in 1964. Her best-known wor
David Rieff
…writer and policy analyst. His books have focused on issues of immigration, international conflict, and humanitarianism. Rieff is the only child of Susan Sontag, who was 19 years old when he was born. His father, whom Sontag divorced, was Philip Rieff, author of Freud: The Mind of the Moralist. Rieff was educated…
Photo portrait of Sontag, 1966
The cover of Against Interpretation (1966), which contains some of Sontag's best-known essays
The former Sarajevo newspaper building during the Siege of Sarajevo, when Sontag lived in the city
Susan Sontag in 1994, painted by Bolivian artist Juan Fernando Bastos