[10/13/26] Sontag, Susan: The Collected Essays

Library of America, paperback

Publication Date: October 13, 2026

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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:

Vollume 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.