Walter Benjamin's essay on Nikolai Leskov, "The Storyteller," is praised in her Under the Sign of Saturn.
This author's critical work includes a discussion of Nathalie Sarraute's novel The Planetarium.  Walter Benjamin's essay on Nikolai Leskov, "The Storyteller," is praised in her Under the Sign of Saturn. Her last novel was based on the life of the actress Helena Modjeska, and attracted controversy with claims that she plagiarized Willa Cather.  Max dies at the end of her story "The Way We Live Now," and she discussed the work of Edward Weston, Lewis Hine, and Diane Arbus in On Photography.  She also wrote a novel about Emma Hamilton, The Volcano Lover, and an essay about Illness as Metaphor. FTP, identify this American author of "Notes on 'Camp,'" which was collected in Against Interpretation.
This author's critical work includes a discussion of Nathalie Sarraute's novel The Planetarium.  
Susan Sontag