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In this volume, Susan Sontag brings together sixteen essays and addresses that she wrote in the final years of her life. They span her keen insight into art, politics, and the writer’s duty to witness, touching on the liberating power of literature, the moral demands of resistance to injustice, and the challenges of post‑9/11 America, from its political rhetoric to the atrocities at Abu Ghraib. The essays also survey writers ranging from Soviet novelist Leonid Tsypkin to Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer, underscoring their contributions to moral judgment and the broader human conscience.
First publish date: 2007
Genre: Literary Fiction/Contemporary Literary Fiction
Authors: Susan Sontag
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