Join Pioneer Works to celebrate the publication of Susan Sontag’s On Women (Picador): a new collection of Sontag’s seminal essays which, as Merve Emre writes in her introduction, traverse “the politics and aesthetics of being a woman in the United States, the Americas, and the world.”

The essays in On Women bear the imprint of Sontag’s lived experience as well as her ferocious intellect. She writes about beauty – its gendered specificity, mutability, limitations, and power. She delivers prescient musings on aging and body modification. She reflects on film and fascism. She debates other thinkers and envisions, in electrifying prose, a pluralistic, liberatory world for women that we’re still seeking today.

For this special book launch and conversation, Merve Emre will be joined by Sigrid Nunez and Doreen St. Félix to probe Sontag’s refractive legacies, and her keen resonance in our new era of women watching women.

More information on the event can be found here.