Rescuing the pioneering literary and social critic from the clutches of boring right-wingers and ‘Jews of culture’ on the 100th anniversary of his birth

Why there should be a run on the philosopher’s books, on what would have been his 109th birthday today

Pomp and circumstance and advice for post-graduation life, from Elie Weisel to Susan Sontag and Andy Samberg

With the High Holidays and school year in full swing, one of our foremost Jewish intellectuals lays out ten tenets—initially for her son—for taking care of your kids

New film suggests the writer’s greatest subject may well have been herself

Having brought author Clarice Lispector back into the public eye, biographer Ben Moser turns to Susan Sontag

Remembering the author, who died yesterday at 72

The virtuoso of queer theory’s rhetorically playful and nuanced prose on AIDS, Lana Turner, and the ‘imminence of nothingness’

The newly published second volume of the great critic’s journals reveals her transformation from hedonistic revolutionary to elitist enforcer

A Jewish Museum exhibit on the New York Photo League shows how its photographers fetishized poverty for the sake of propaganda

The misguided prophet Balaam—who knew that words have meanings and must be used judiciously—should be the patron saint of the Internet

Jewish history, the day you were born

Sigrid Nunez’s memoir of Susan Sontag in the 1970s shows the polarizing thinker in a rarely seen light—as mentor, hero, and muse

Billie Holiday kissed and hated the Tablet contributor

Controversy sprouts over late singer’s sexuality