{"product_id":"susan-sontag-later-essays-loa-292-isbn-9781598535198","title":"Susan Sontag: Later Essays (LOA #292)","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn unprecedented collection of the controversial later writings of the greatest\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eand most provocative critic of our time.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Susan Sontag was the most influential critic of her time. This second volume in Library of America's definitive Sontag edition gathers all the collected essays and speeches from her last quarter-century, brilliant works whose subjects, 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, bear enduring witness to passionate curiosity and expansive intellect. She brings to every subject an unwavering focus and intensity, and a deep commitment to \"extending our sense of what a human life can be,\" as she said on accepting the Jerusalem Prize in 2000. An account of her 1993 residence in war-torn Sarajevo to stage a production of \u003ci\u003eWaiting for Godot\u003c\/i\u003e becomes a meditation on the meaning of culture: \"Culture, serious culture, is an expression of human dignity-which is what people in Sarajevo feel they have lost.\" \u003ci\u003eAIDS and Its Metaphors\u003c\/i\u003e marks a further development of the central ideas of her classic \u003ci\u003eIllness as Metaphor\u003c\/i\u003e, while \u003ci\u003eRegarding the Pain of Others\u003c\/i\u003e explores eloquently the troubling moral issues surrounding photographic depictions of violence, cruelty, and atrocity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLIBRARY OF AMERICA\u003c\/b\u003e is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.\u003cb\u003eDavid Rieff \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eSwimming in a Sea of Death: A Son's Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eSusan Sontag: Essays of the 1960s \u0026amp; 70s.\u003c\/i\u003e His many other books include \u003ci\u003eAt the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Reproach of Hunger: Food, Justice, and Money in the Twenty-First Century\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eIn Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233597763813,"sku":"NP9781598535198","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781598535198.jpg?v=1767737635","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/susan-sontag-later-essays-loa-292-isbn-9781598535198","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}