Philip Hensher

No one held Susan Sontag in higher esteem than she did: Her Life reviewed

Benjamin Moser’s incisive biography has a sense of humour entirely lacking in its subject

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  • Sontag: Her Life

    Benjamin Moser

    Allen Lane, pp. 790, £30

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Philip Hensher
Philip Hensher is professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University and the author of 11 novels including A Small Revolution in Germany.

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