Four horsemen of New Camp

Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, if they have been named, have never been described. — Susan Sontag.

Susan Sontag would have really enjoyed these last couple of weeks.

The late American intellectual had the kind of eminence that gets you namechecked in Gremlins movies — see the chat-show scene for proof — as a result of a lifetime’s perceptive commentary, but her career really began with the famous ‘Notes On Camp’ essay.