Rieff

Her son by an early marriage, David Rieff, is the author of Los Angeles, Capital of the Third World (1991).

Five People Born on January 28 | myFiveBest 2010

Needless to say, the country described above is not Pakistan but India, which, long feared to be near collapse, has revamped its old western image through what the American writer David Rieff calls the most "successful national re-branding" and "cleverest PR campaign" by a political and business establishment since "Cool Britannia" in the 1990s.

Pakistan: A Hard Country by Anatol Lieven – review 2011

This interest is nicely fed by "Sempre Susan," a brief memoir by the novelist Sigrid Nunez, who, at the age of 25, became Susan Sontag's secretary and her son David Rieff's lover.

A Very Public Intellectual Joseph Epstein 2011

As David Rieff wrote in The New Republic, to French intellectuals, DSK deserves special treatment because he is a valuable person.

A Week of Shocks but Few Surprises Peggy Noonan 2011

Susan Sontag “came to being ill,” writes Rieff, “imbued with a profound sense of being the exception to every rule.”

Cover to Cover 2008

The doctor—Rieff calls him Dr. A.—was totally pessimistic.

The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

Susan Sontag “came to being ill,” writes Rieff, “imbued with a profound sense of being the exception to every rule.”

Cover to Cover 2008

“Like so many doctors,” Rieff recalls, “he spoke to us as if we were children but without the care that a sensible adult takes in choosing what words to use with a child.”

The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

The doctor—Rieff calls him Dr. A.—was totally pessimistic.

The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

“Like so many doctors,” Rieff recalls, “he spoke to us as if we were children but without the care that a sensible adult takes in choosing what words to use with a child.”

The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010