Le Mépris (film), 202
Le Monde, 430
Lennon, John, 493, 503
Lerman, Leo, 504
lesbianism (lesbian affairs), 10, 75–76, 86–88, 90, 154. See also Childs, Lucinda; Del Pezzo, Anna Carlotta; Fornés, María Irene; Leibovitz, Annie; Sohmers, Harriet; Stéphane, Nicole
“The Bi’s Progress,” 90–91
the closet and “coming out,” 398–99, 513–17, 632–35
Eva Kollisch, 253–55, 256, 258, 329
“four hundred lesbians,” 317–18
Nightwood (Barnes), 83–84, 89, 99–100, 101–2, 196, 317
“outing” of Susan, 627–35
The Price of Salt (Highsmith), 170, 210, 515–16
Les enfants terribles (film), 331, 332, 333
Le silence de la mer (film), 331, 332, 333
Les Misérables (Hugo), 41, 559
Lessing, Doris, 484
Les temps modernes (magazine), 334
“Letter from Sweden, A,” 313–15
“Letter Scene, The,” 167
Levin, Harry, 135
Levine, Don Eric, 201–2
background of, 201–2
David and Susan, 182, 258, 411
Susan and Carlotta, 318, 319, 320–21
Susan and her mother, 256
Susan and Jewish identity, 41
Susan and sister, Judith, 186
Susan’s affairs, 193, 284, 285
Susan’s amphetamine use, 243, 644
Susan’s cancer and, 375, 381
on Susan’s fame, 241–42
Susan Taubes and, 220–21
Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 267, 269
Lévy, Bernard-Henri, 562
LeWitt, Sol, 442
Liberace, 466, 472
“liberalism,” 207, 423
Life (magazine), 225, 471, 473
Lincoln, Abraham, 129–30, 427
Lindgren, Göran, 310
Line of Beauty, The (Hollinghurst), 519
Linfield, Susie, 359
L’invitée (Beauvoir), 335
Lispector, Clarice, 501
Little Lord Fauntleroy (Burnett), 23, 35
Little Red School House (New York City), 586
Little Women (Alcott), 175
Locke, Richard, 504
Loeb Classical Library, 596
London, Jack, 57–59, 64
Martin Eden, 57–59, 61–62, 85–86, 102, 242, 614
London Terrace apartment, 524–25, 526, 528–29, 663, 666–67
Lonely Crowd, The (Riesman), 98
Lopate, Phillip, 204, 211, 310, 435
Los Angeles, 55–57, 67, 88–90
Los Angeles Times, 626
Lotti, Mariella, 319
Lowell, Robert, 217, 273
LSD, 184–85, 498
Lukács, György, 4
Lynd, Helen, 193
Lynn, Dick, 102
Lyons, Irene, 83
MacArthur Fellowship, 523–24, 527
Macdonald, Dwight, 205, 206, 207–8
Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria, 649
MacLaine, Shirley, 285
Magic Mountain, The (Mann), 68, 69, 679
Magnus, Hans, 560
Magritte, René, 189
Maher, Bill, 661
Mailer, Norman, 217, 301, 372, 625
Adele and Susan, 174, 372
feud with Vidal, 546
PEN American Center, 482–85, 489
sexual habits of, 193
Town Hall meeting (April 1971), 395–96, 423
Town Hall “Read-In” (February 1966), 273
Making It (Podhoretz), 205
Malamud, Bernard, 215, 273, 343
Malibran, Maria, 247
Maloff, Saul, 250
Malraux, André, 58, 561
Malraux, Clara, 58
Malraux, Florence, 58, 327–28, 728n
Mamoulian, Rouben, 620
Mandela, Nelson, 551
Manhood (Leiris), 561–62
Manilow, Barry, 627
Mann, Katia, 71–72
Mann, Thomas, 74, 83, 90, 113, 151, 374, 536
“Pilgrimage,” 56, 68–72, 76–77, 479, 602
Susan’s visits with, 67–72, 101, 178, 248
Mansfeld Junior High, 45, 52
Mansfield, Jayne, 232, 277
Mao Zedong, 41, 360
Mapplethorpe, Robert, 466, 700
Marcuse, Herbert, 142–43, 153, 200–201, 266, 273, 323
Marlowe, Christopher, 83
Martin, Steve, 638–39
Martin Eden (London), 57–59, 61–62, 85–86, 102, 242, 614
“martyr complex,” 590–91
Marum, Gene, 90–91
Marx, Karl (Marxism), 94, 119, 142, 209, 266, 287
masks, 34, 126, 185–87
mastectomy, 366, 367, 387, 449
Matthiessen, F. O., 193
Matthiessen, Peter, 449
Matthiessen, Sara, 449–50
McCarthy, Mary, 205, 207, 342, 484, 546
McCourt, Jimmy, 647–48
McLuhan, Marshall, 268, 269
McMurtry, Larry, 53, 240, 262–63, 489, 591
McNulty, Rose “Rosie,” 23, 31, 38, 48, 118, 169, 364
Medea (play), 166, 261
Medicare/Medicaid, 284
Meir, Golda, 346
Mekas, Jonas, 235, 294
melancholy, 381–83
Melville, Jean-Pierre, 332
Memorial Sloan Kettering (New York City), 366–67, 449, 689, 695–96
Memran, Michelle, 220, 221, 734n
Menashe, Sam, 181–82, 218
Menil, Dominique de, 370
Metropolitan Museum (New York City), 212
Metropolitan Opera (New York City), 442, 449
Miami Beach, 30, 38
Michelangelo, 117, 126
Michelson, Annette, 159–62
Middlemarch (Eliot), 116
Miller, Arthur, 370, 488
Miller, Henry, 111, 161
Miller, James, 97, 638
Miller, Jonathan, 153
Miller, Laura, 638
Miller, Peggy, 364, 408, 411, 510
Milošević, Slobodan, 438, 553–54, 555, 617–18
Miłosz, Czesław, 483
“Mind as Passion,” 383–85, 453
Minima Moralia (Rieff), 113
Misfortunes of Virtue (de Sade), 163
Mishima, Yukio, 196–97, 401
misogyny, 127–28, 135, 484
“Mr. Casaubon,” 116, 153, 599–600
Modern Library, 48–49, 61
Modjeska, Helena, 600–601, 602, 636–37
Molotov cocktail, 273
Monette, Paul, 519
Monroe, Marilyn, 480, 625
Monsieur Phot (Cornell), 247
Montaigne, Michel de, 126
Montale, Eugenio, 213
Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage Award, 585
Montealegre, Felicia, 376
Montparnasse Cemetery, 699–700, 702–3
Mooney, Ted, 369, 644, 728n
Moore, Demi, 622
Morales, Adele, 174
“morbidity,” 354–55
Morocco, 163–64, 250–51
Morrison, Toni, 483
Moses and Monotheism (Freud), 108
Moss, Tom, 310
Mount Fuji, 492
Mowat, Farley, 483
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 586
Mukherjee, Siddhartha, 377, 405–6
Mullarkey, Karen, 494–98, 500–503
Mulligan, Karen, 666
Museum of Modern Art (New York City), Arbus exhibit, 352–53
Musto, Michael, 463
Must We Burn de Sade? (Beauvoir), 159–60
Myers, Kevin, 580
My Life Among the Deathworks (P. Rieff), 130
Nabokov, Vladimir, 161
narcissism, 230, 415
narrative uncertainty, 417–18, 421
Nation, The, 234
National Book Award, 638–39
NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, 619–20
Nazi Germany, 41, 42–44, 137, 138, 165, 205–6, 213, 331–32, 391–94, 400–401, 555
Nellie (cook), 23, 26–27, 31, 38
neoconservatism, 425, 437
Neruda, Pablo, 213
New Bowery Theater, 235
New Deal, 284
Newhouse, Samuel Irving “Si,” 504
“New Left,” 273–74, 325, 336
“New Man,” 315–16, 325, 326, 388
New Moon Inn (New York City), 203
New Reformation (Goodman), 337
New Republic, 223, 370, 433, 659, 695
“new sensibility,” 262–63, 268–70, 287
New York City Union Square, 214–15
New York Daily News, 210
New Yorker, The
“The Hunger Artist,” 527–28, 613, 630–31, 635–36
“The Way We Live Now,” 464–65, 467–73, 475, 519
“Tuesday, and After,” 657–62
New York Film Festival, 312, 332
New York Fire Department, 662–63
New York Institute for the Humanities, 417, 432
New York Intellectuals, 204
New York Post, 546–47, 659–60
New York Review of Books, The, 94, 173, 217, 273, 384, 396, 397, 411, 432, 504, 617
“Photography,” 349–50
New York Times, 217, 229, 334–35, 430, 431, 448, 460–61, 515, 560, 571, 581, 607, 614, 625–26, 629, 636–37, 645–46
“Homosexuals Proud of Deviancy,” 233–34
“Why Are We in Kosovo?,” 618–19
New York Times Book Review, The, 250, 262
New York Times Magazine, The, 229, 493
“Regarding the Torture of Others,” 685–87, 688
“The Sir Isaac Newton of Camp,” 239–40
New York University (NYU), 84
Nichols, Mike, 96, 238
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 63, 128, 200, 288, 311, 319, 421
Nightwood (Barnes), 83–84, 89, 99–100, 101–2, 196, 317
Nile River cruise, 593, 621, 623
Nimer, Stephen, 694, 696
Nixon, Richard, 337, 388–89
Nobel Prize, 40, 69, 213, 384, 392, 448, 678
Norris, Frank, 59
North Hollywood High, 62–64, 73, 79, 81, 89
“Notes on ‘Camp,’” 6, 182, 228–34, 267
reception, 228–29, 232–33, 236–37, 239–40, 425
summary and themes, 86, 229–34, 236–38, 321, 383
“Notes on Homosexuality,” 230–31
“Notes Toward a Definition of Cultural Revolution,” 338
“Notes Toward a Politics of Location” (Rich), 470–71, 472
Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs (Genet), 197
nouveau roman, 4, 187–88
Nuba peoples, 391, 393, 399
Nunez, Sigrid, 243–44, 389, 407–8, 409, 414–15, 450, 452, 455, 648
Nunu (dog), 449
Nymphlight (film), 440
Oates, Joyce Carol, 431
Obama, Barack, 669
Obie Awards, 220
Octopus, The (Norris), 59
Oedipus complex, 123, 127
“Old Complaints Revisited,” 420–21
On Aesthetics (Aristotle), 94
Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 5, 238–39, 283, 285, 408–9
Ondine, 243
“One Culture and the New Sensibility,” 262–63, 268–70
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Solzhenitsyn), 385
One Summer of Happiness (film), 308
Ono, Yoko, 493, 503
“On Paul Goodman,” 336–37, 385
On Photography, 349–62, 502, 595–96, 672–73, 701
appendix of quotes, 246, 359–61
Arbus and origins, 324, 352–59, 497
Levine and, 202, 381
publication and reception, 350, 359
summary and themes, 6, 165, 237–38, 280–81, 350–58, 361–62, 564, 583
“On Style,” 184–85, 199, 391–92
“On the Puppet Theater” (Kleist), 288–89
On the Road (Kerouac), 455
Open Theater, 253
opera, 4, 61, 311, 339
Opium Wars, 21
orgasm, 177, 284
Orwell, George, 561
Oslo Accords, 551
“outing,” 514–16, 520–21, 627–35
OutWeek (magazine), 514–15
Oxford University, 145, 152–56, 199, 656
Ozick, Cynthia, 395
Paddock, Lisa, 625–27, 630–31
Padilla, Heberto, 430–31
Paglia, Camille, 244, 342–44, 545–48
Palermo, 277, 352
Palestine, 344–45, 644–46, 683
Paley, Grace, 484
Pareigis, Christina, 138–39
Paris, 111, 156–57, 159–61, 163–65, 334
Parker, Dorothy, 342
Parnassus, 9, 385–86
Partisan Review, 64–65, 83, 173, 205–6, 213, 216, 225, 267, 272, 429
“Notes on ‘Camp,’” 228–34, 236–38, 239–40
Pašović, Haris, 558, 559–60, 566, 567, 581, 587, 593
Payne Whitney Hospital (New York City), 450
Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, 678–79
Pearl Harbor attack, 656, 657–58
Peattie, Antony, 593
Peking, 17, 339
PEN American Center, 482–89
penicillin, 20, 21
penis envy, 127
Penn, Irving, 350, 700
Peretz, Martin, 370
Permanence and Change (Burke), 98
Perrone, Peter, 508, 524–25, 528, 622, 664, 681, 684, 689, 693, 694–95
Persona (film), 292–94, 321, 327, 566
Pessoa, Fernando, 427
Phillips, William, 205–6, 207, 216, 228–29
Photographer’s Life, A (Leibovitz), 358–59, 701–2
Photograph (Leibovitz), 504
“Photography,” 349–50
Picasso, Pablo, 625
Pickwick Bookstore (Los Angeles), 69, 72
“Pilgrimage,” 56, 68–72, 76–77, 79, 80–81, 207, 479–80
Pinckney, Darryl, 33, 446
Piñeiro, Manuel, 325
Pirandello, Luigi, 569–70
plagiarism, 636–38, 769–70n
Plato, 7, 12, 79–80, 95, 185, 186, 238, 261, 299
Pochoda, Philip, 433
Podhoretz, Norman, 211, 423, 433, 437
Commentary, 173, 425
the Family and, 204–5, 208–9
high/low culture debate, 229, 262, 425
Poe, Edgar Allan, 306
Poland, 431–32
Police Building studio (New York City), 526
politics, 272, 274–76, 313–14
“Trip to Hanoi,” 300–305, 307
“What’s Happening in America,” 306–7
Pollock, Jackson, 183
pornografia, 298
“Pornographic Imagination, The,” 163, 295–96
pornography, 162, 234–35, 294–98
“Fascinating Fascism,” 399–401
Portraits in Life and Death (Hujar), 277–78, 367
poses (posing), 74
positivism, 119–20
postmodernism, 424–29
Pound, Ezra, 390
Prado Museum (Madrid), 161
Presley, Elvis, 403
Price of Salt, The (Highsmith), 170, 210, 515–16
Princeton University, 366, 409–10, 411
Private Potato Patch of Greta Garbo, The (play), 321
Prohibition, 18–19
“Project for a Trip to China,” 338–40, 404, 418, 419, 551–52
Promised Lands (film), 344–47
psychoanalysis, 137, 185, 188, 207, 373–74. See also Freud, Sigmund
Public Theater (New York City), 243
Puerto Rico, 246
Pulitzer Prize, 5
puritanism, 93, 326, 350, 613
Purivatra, Miro, 556–57, 582
Pynchon, Thomas, 202
quantum mechanics, 351
Quarti, Mimma, 333–34
Queen Christina (film), 620
racism, 224, 274, 275
Rahv, Philip, 205–6, 207, 228–29
Ramparts, 313
Rand, Ayn, 241
rattlesnakes, 45
Rauschenberg, Robert, 261–62
Reader’s Digest, 63, 207, 433
Reagan, Ronald, 396, 422–24, 426–27, 432, 438, 463, 472, 513, 514, 515
reality, 8–9, 12–13, 185, 279, 600
The Benefactor, 190–92
dreams and, 185, 191, 279, 518, 600
language and, 299–300, 472, 704
On Photography, 356–57, 361
Redbook (magazine), 35
Red Shoes, The (film), 110
Reed, John, 205
Regarding the Pain of Others, 594–95, 656, 670–75
summary and themes, 563, 670–75, 680
“Regarding the Torture of Others,” 685–87, 688
Reich, Wilhelm, 357, 373–74
Reid, Atka Kafedzić, 555–56, 562, 586
“reminiscences,” 124–25
representation, 6–7, 94, 356–57, 674
repression, 33, 52, 127, 142–43, 373–74, 376
Republic Indemnity Company of America, 88
Resnais, Alain, 161, 267
Rhinebeck house, 622, 662–63
Rice, Condoleezza, 669–70
Rich, Adrienne, 217, 396–97, 401, 562
“Notes Toward a Politics of Location,” 470–71, 472
Rich, Frank, 571
Riefenstahl, Leni, 197, 390–97, 399–400
The Last of the Nuba, 391, 393, 399
Sontag’s “Fascinating Fascism,” 393–97, 399–400, 454
Rieff, David
Annie and, 358–59, 526–29, 667, 700
birth of, 117–18, 133
Carlotta and, 317–18, 320, 412
childhood and adolescence of, 134, 142, 146–47, 155, 162, 168, 169–72, 179–82, 186, 248–48, 256–59
custody fight, 186, 209–11
cocaine addiction of, 451–52
education of, 363, 365, 366, 409–10, 411
at FSG, 408, 411, 448–49, 509
mother in Vietnam, 307
mother’s fame, 285
mother’s fear of death, 10, 46
mother’s outsider status, 398
mother’s relationship with, 134, 146–47, 155, 162, 167–72, 179–82, 256–59, 363–67, 407, 409–15, 448–52, 457, 509, 592–95, 609, 614, 638–39, 655–56
Annie’s Photograph, 358–59, 700, 701–2
Arbus Photograph, 352–53
cancer, 366–67, 370, 376, 377, 449, 683–84, 688, 690–97
Cuba trip, 324–25
death, 699–700
funeral, 699–700
Israel trip, 344–45
reading habits, 146–47, 256–57
September 11 attacks, 660–62
name of, 117–18
Sarajevo and Bosnian War, 553, 556, 557, 558, 564, 582, 583, 592–95, 655–56
Sigrid and, 407–8, 409, 414–15, 450, 452
Swimming in a Sea of Death, 10, 701–2
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