- 1. Megan Amram’s Trump Tweets & The Genius of Repetition
- (Entertainment)
- ... of context and meaning. Her early work, Truisms (1977-9), showcased a mash-up of lines copied a variety of thinkers like Karl Marx and Susan Sontag. In On War, a 2017 exhibit, Holzer broadcast text describing ...
- Created on 20 November 2019
- 2. In "Maya Dardel," Lena Olin Plays A Woman Trying To Succeed In A Man's World: Revi
- (Movies)
- ... Susan Sontag, and George Eliot were men, and therefore, we assume, were properly talented writers. Right away, then, we see how Maya Dardel becomes an illustration of what happens to a certain kind of ...
- Created on 04 January 2018
- 3. Week Of Women: November 17-23, 2017
- (Entertainment)
- ... 2018 print issue for review. BOOKS Debriefing: Collected Stories by Susan Sontag This posthumous collection of Susan Sontag’s short stories “shows another side of her intellectual force," writes ...
- Created on 16 November 2017
- 4. 11 Books By Women To Read This November
- (Books)
- ... on top. 5/5 –Laurie Ann Cedilnik Debriefing: Collected Stories By Susan Sontag, Edited by Benjamin Taylor (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Primarily an essayist, Susan Sontag is not well known for her ...
- Created on 14 November 2017
- 5. Kathryn Bigelow, From "The Hurt Locker" To "Detroit": 52 Weeks Of Directo
- (Movies)
- ... moved to New York — “I’d never been east of Lake Tahoe” — and worked with advisors like Susan Sontag and Vito Acconci while living in an old bank vault. (For real.) She became part of the downtown art ...
- Created on 02 February 2017
- 6. Gloria Steinem, Hillary Clinton, And Other Captivating Women Shine In New Annie Leibovitz Series
- (Arts)
- ... give up.” All photos by Kelsy Chauvin WOMEN is the continuation of the original project Leibovitz began as an idea from her partner Susan Sontag in 1999. “I was reluctant to take on such a broad ...
- Created on 23 November 2016
- 7. Why Are We Policing Women's Voices—And Not Men'
- (Feminism)
- In Terry Gross's NPR interview with writer and editor Jessica Grose, professor of linguistics Penny Eckert, and speech pathologist Susan Sankin, the subject on the table was the policing of young women’s ...
- Created on 27 July 2015
- 8. Perfect Pussy's Meredith Graves Is A Rockstar For A New Generatio
- (Music)
- ... Mock Agua Viva, Clarice Lispector Literally anything by Susan Sontag and of course, Rookie, all day every day Because Meredith Graves is such a doll, she made our photographer a spinach and bacon ...
- Created on 11 May 2015
- 9. The 'Girls' Girls On Work, Lady Love, And How Life Has Changed For Them All ...
- (TV)
- ... it meant to be female in a very messy way, to make her nose job jokes and make her abortion jokes. And I think about Susan Sontag and Gloria Steinem and women who affected the culture-- they were the people ...
- Created on 14 January 2015
- 10. Classic Movies Changed To Be Not Sexist
- (Movies)
- ... their sense of self. Transformers Megan Fox is the main character of this film about giant robots discussing Susan Sontag. Snow White Snow White, who happens to have a real name (Theresa), tells the ...
- Created on 29 August 2014
- 11. You Won't Believe These Ridiculous Laws Until You See Them Broken In These Photograph
- (Arts)
- In Alabama it's illegal to have an ice cream cone in your pocket at all times The critic Susan Sontag wrote that photography, like no other medium, has the power to condemn or implicate. Crime ...
- Created on 12 November 2013
- 12. These Photographs of Motherhood Are Unlike Any You've Ever Seen #sobeautifu
- (Arts)
- ... critic Susan Sontag warned that we take our culture’s plethora of images for granted, we will experience a “[distancing of] emotions” and “the erosion of the very notion of meaning”(On Photography). Photographs ...
- Created on 22 October 2013
- 13. Book Review | Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab-American Family
- (General)
- ... well as dinners with Noam Chomsky, Susan Sontag, and the “crème de la crème of the Palestinian Resistance.” But by enrolling her in an elite Upper East Side private school where she was the only Arab ...
- Created on 03 September 2013
- 14. Check Out These First Ads For Famous Books
- (General)
- Damn, Brainpickings always has the coolest book stuff! If you missed last week’s vintage library ads, go look at them now. And then come back. Right back. Because you need to look at these, too. Brainpickings ...
- Created on 20 September 2012
