Susan Sontag: The Collected Essays Boxed Set by Susan Sontag / David Rieff, editor

Product Details

• Publisher: Library of America (2026-11-03)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 1740 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781598538595
• Item Weight: 1301.83 grams
• Dimensions: 21.51 x 13.72 x 6.35 cm

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.

About the Author

Susn Sontag (1933–2004) was the author of four novels, a collection of stories, several plays, and nine works of criticism, among them On Photography, which won the National Books Critics Circle Award for criticism. In 2001, Sontag was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work. 

David Rieff is the author of Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son’s Memoir and the editor of the journals and notebook of Susan Sontag, of which two volumes have appeared to date. His many other books include At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention and A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis. He lives in New York.