If Jim Morrison coupled with Susan Sontag, the fruit of their union might resemble Patti Smith.

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The list of contributors is formidable: Isaiah Berlin, Joan Didion, Susan Sontag, Edmund Wilson, etc, etc.

ECONOMIST: Barbara Epstein, editor, died on June 16th, aged 77

His deference to other critics such as James Wood and Susan Sontag feels generous, but also obscures his own argument.

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Blair is serious and muted she looks like Susan Sontag without the restless energy.

NEWYORKER: That��s Life

Even a brain-dead liberal should appreciate the surgical finesse with which Mr Mamet punctures the pomposities of Gloria Steinem and Susan Sontag.

ECONOMIST: David Mamet's rant against liberalism

In 2004 he allowed his 1990 manifesto calling for soldiers to refuse orders to be reprinted in a book Refusnik: Israel's Soldiers of Conscience which was published with a forward by Susan Sontag and a recommendation by Noam Chomsky.

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