SONTAG E KAEL

In this witty, erudite, and stylish study of two of the twentieth century’s most influential cultural critics, Craig Seligman penned the sleeper success of last year. Not a dry ponderous 'think piece', but a lively, highly readable examination of the work of both Susan Sontag and Pauline Kael, this walloping literary dust-up sizes up two writers who couldn’t be more different in their style and approach. Though outwardly Sontag and Kael had things in common, they were both Westerners who came east, both schooled in philosophy, both secular Jews, and both single mothers, they were polar opposites in temperament.