'I am alive ... I am beautiful ... what else is there?'

Susan Sontag's journals reveal the writer's anxieties, passions, and development

The publication this month of the first volume of Susan Sontag's Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), edited by her son, David Rieff, is a significant event in the literary world. The book gives us more fully than ever the mind and sensibility of one of the 20th century's finest writers at work during her formative years. It provides compelling insights into the worlds

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