New York, NY

New York, NY is Susan Sontag's place of birth and the city in which she wrote most of her criticism for the majority of her life. She was born there in 1933 and died there in 2004 at the age of 71. It is also the location where she watched the majority of the films and plays discussed in the book and the central hub of culture and artistic life during her time of the 1960s.

The Lincoln Center Repertory Theater

The Lincoln Center Repertory Theater is a theater located in New York, NY. It was established in 1965 and is managed and administered by the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. It is referenced throughout the book as the location where Susan Sontag viewed the majority of the dramatic plays and theater productions she discusses in her reviews.

The Novel

Sontag discusses the novel both as an object...