Showing posts with label Susan Sontag. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Susan Sontag. Show all posts

Sunday, 9 November 2025

The literary comeback of 2025: Why everyone's quoting Sontag again

Sontag is back in the algorithm, from Instagram to Substack. Here's why her voice is resonating again, what to read first, and what we’re missing.
It started, as these things often do, on Instagram. A scan of Susan Sontag's notebook in Helvetica type, posted by an aesthetic account better known for café shots and Proustian lighting. "Love words, agonise over sentences," it read. It had 112,000 likes.

In a year where cultural discourse seems more fragile than ever, Sontag's voice cuts through. Aphoristic, self-possessed, and unafraid to court complexity, she's re-entered the conversation not just as a thinker, but as a kind of literary style icon.