Susan Sontag: The Collected Essays
The Library of America presents its authoritative two-volume edition of America’s most provocative critic in a deluxe collector’s boxed set. Includes Against Interpretation, On Photography, Regarding the Pain of Others, and 6 other classic Sontag collections.
Susan Sontag was an incandescent presence in American culture, whether as essayist, fiction writer, filmmaker, or political activist. As a critic, she became the most provocative and influential voice of her time. More than a commentator on her era, she helped shape it. Here for the first time is Library of America’s authoritative two-volume edition of Susan Sontag’s brilliant essays in deluxe collector’s boxed set.
Includes 9 complete collections and six uncollected essays:
Volume I: Essays of the 1960s & 70s
Against Interpretation • Styles of Radical Will • On Photography • Illness as Metaphor • uncollected essays
Volume II: Later Essays
Under the Sign of Saturn • AIDS and Its Metaphors • Where the Stress Falls • Regarding the Pain of Others • At the Same Time
Each cloth hardcover volume comes complete with helpful annotation, detailed textual essays, and a chronology of Sontag’s remarkable life and career prepared by her son, the writer David Rieff.
Description from Penguin Random House.
Two cloth hardcover volumes in one box: nine complete collections and six uncollected essays, from Against Interpretation to At the Same Time. Out November 3, 2026, from Library of America.
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