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 Americas authoritative two-volume edition of Susan Sontags brilliant essays in collectors boxed set, gathering nine complete collections and six uncollected essays.

The Collected Essays includes:

Essays of the 1960s 70s

Against Interpretation

Styles of Radical Will

On Photography

Illness as Metaphor

uncollected essays

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 Sontags remarkable life and career prepared by her son, the writer David Rieff.

David Rieff, editor, is the author of Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son’s Memoir and editor of the journals and notebooks of Susan Sontag. His many other books include At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention, The Reproach of Hunger: Food, Justice, and Money in the Twenty-First Century, and In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies.