Author: Susan Sontag
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: photography
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2001-08-25
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0312420099
ISBN-13: 9780312420093

Winner of the National Book Critics’ Circle Award for Criticism.One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, On Photography first appeared in 1977 and is described by its author as “a progress of essays about the meaning and career of photographs.” It begins with the famous “In Plato’s Cave”essay, then offers five other prose meditations on this topic, and concludes with a fascinating and far-reaching “Brief Anthology of Quotations.”

Author: Susan Sontag
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: metaphors, aids, metaphor, illness
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2001-08-25
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0312420137
ISBN-13: 9780312420130

In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as "one of the most liberating books of its time." A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. By demystifying the fantasies surrounding cancer, Sontag shows cancer for what it is--just a disease. Cancer, she argues, is not a curse, not a punishment, certainly not an embarrassment and, it is highly curable, if good

Author: Susan Sontag
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: radical, styles
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2002-03-06
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0312420218
ISBN-13: 9780312420215

Styles of Radical Will, Susan Sontag’s second collection of essays, extends the investigations she undertook in Against Interpretation with essays on film, literature, politics, and a groundbreaking study of pornography.

Author: Susan Sontag
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: novel, america
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2001-05
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0312273207
ISBN-13: 9780312273200

In America is a kaleidoscopic portrait of America on the cusp of modernity. As she did in her enormously popular novel The Volcano Lover, Susan Sontag casts a story located in the past in a fresh, provocative light to create a fictional world full of contemporary resonance. In 1876 a group of Poles led by Maryna Zalezowska, Poland’s greatest actress, emigrate to the United States and travel to California to found a "utopian commune." When the commune fails, Maryna stays, learns English, and—as Marina Zalenska—forges a new, even more triumphant career on the American stage, becoming

Author: Susan Sontag
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: others, pain, regarding
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2004-02-01
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0312422199
ISBN-13: 9780312422196

Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual representations of war and violence in our culture today.How does the spectacle of the sufferings of others (via television or newsprint) affect us? Are viewers inured--or incited--to violence by the depiction of cruelty? In Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag takes a fresh look at the representation of atrocity--from Goya’s The Disasters of War to photographs of the American Civil War, lynchings of blacks in the South, and the Nazi death camps, to contemporary horrific images of Bosn

Author: Susan Sontag
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: essays, interpretation
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2001-08-25
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0312280866
ISBN-13: 9780312280864

First published in 1966, this celebrated book--Sontag’s first collection of essays--quickly became a modern classic, and has had an enormous influence in America and abroad on thinking about the arts and contemporary culture. As well as the title essay and the famous "Notes on Camp," Against Interpretation includes original and provocative discussions of Sartre, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, science-fiction movies, psychoanalysis, and contemporary religious thinking. This edition features a new afterword by Sontag.

Author: Susan Sontag
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: essays, falls, stress
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2002-11-09
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0312421311
ISBN-13: 9780312421311

Thirty-five years after her first collection, the now classic Against Interpretation, America’s most important essayist has chosen more than forty longer and shorter pieces from the last twenty years. Divided into three sections, the first "Reading" includes ardent pieces on writers from her own private canon - Machado de Assis, Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Borges, Tsvetaeva, and Elizabeth Hardwick. In the second, "Seeing" she shares her passions for film, dance, photography, painting, opera, and theater. And in the final section, "There and Here" Sontag explores her own commitments to the wor