Susan Sontag's Tangential Classics

Susan Sontag (1933-2004) once declared: "My idea of a writer: someone interested in ''everything''. Being interested in ''everything'' had come naturally to me." This statement was made thirty years after the publication of Against Interpretation in 1966, towards the end of a prolific career as an essayist, diarist, novelist, filmmaker, and activist. The Greco-Roman classics play an intriguing par...