An unprecedented collection of the controversial later writings of the greatest and most provocative critic of our time.
An unprecedented collection of the controversial later writings of the greatest and most provocative critic of our time.
This second volume in Library of America's definitive Sontag edition gathers all the collected essays and speeches from the last quarter-century of the most influential critic of her time. Brilliant works whose subjects range from the AIDS epidemic, 9/11, the Iraq war, and the perverse allure of Fascism to painting, dance, music, film, and scintillating literary portraits of such writers as Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Antonin Artaud, Machado de Assis, Jorge Luis Borges, Nadine Gordimer, Joseph Brodsky, W. G. Sebald, Marina Tsvetayeva, and Robert Walser.
David Rieff is the author of Swimming in a Sea of Death- A Son's Memoir and editor of the journals and notebooks of Susan Sontag, of which two volumes have appeared to date, and of the Library of America companion volume Susan Sontag- Essays of the 1960s & 70s. His many other books include At the Point of a Gun- Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention, A Bed for the Night- Humanitarianism in Crisis, The Reproach of Hunger- Food, Justice, and Money in the Twenty-First Century, and In Praise of Forgetting- Historical Memory and Its Ironies.
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