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At a new exhibition, the photographer’s work within the queer community of 70s and 80s New York takes center stage

It’s no wonder 30,000 women are awaiting a cream that claims to make skin actually younger

Sure, the substance of this show is a little lightweight, but with banger after banger it’s totally forgiveable

This new collection of 70s journalism exposes a sexist and wrongheaded essayist with an unwarranted reputation

Susan Sontag’s mixed feelings towards the movement that propelled her career

With an aesthetic dependent on novelty and spectacle, and a structure that’s both disjointed and drawn-out, Eurovision – for some – cannot fail to fail. In its “failed seriousness” (the phrase writer Susan Sontag used to describe “camp”), the song contest has all the exaggerated expressiveness that audiences associate with…

Life writing is usually a conventional business, but these writers take on the job by discarding the rules, with thrilling results

A giant gorilla holding a Volkswagen … the World’s Largest Chest of Drawers … US highways bristle with idiosyncratic wonders

Alert the literati — Susan Sontag is getting a biopic and Kristen Stewart is set to play the late writer-provocateur.

This year marks 50 years since Susan Sontag’s essay Photography was published in the New York Review of Books. Slightly edited and renamed In Plato’s Cave, it would become the first essay in her collection On Photography, which has never been out of print.

The author has published 10,000 words since being left paralysed – about the able-bodied, sexual positions and racist taunts. From Hilary Mantel to Audre Lorde, we look at how illness changes a writer