The "politics, psychology and philosophy of toughness" are reviewed in a new book about six modern women: Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Diane Arbus, and Joan Didion.

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Sontag’s intimate and emotional journals of love affairs, self-doubt, vanity, tenderness, intellectual curiosity and insatiable zest for living, constitute the “great autobiographical novel she never cared to write.”

↩︎ The Times Literary Supplement

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