Guy Stevenson

Dec 5, 2023 | the-tls.co.uk | Jess Cotton |Heather Clark |Guy Stevenson |Phil Baker

In New York City in 1961, Susan Taubes joined a circle of women writers led by her friend Susan Sontag who read and exchanged works in progress. At the time Taubes was teaching comparative mythology and religion at Barnard College and living alone, having recently separated from her husband, the philosopher Jacob Taubes (see facing page). She would soon begin writing Lament for Julia, a dark comic novella that remained unpublished in her lifetime.