Regarding the Pain of Others is a 2003 book-length essay by American writer Susan Sontag, which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. It was her last published book before her deat
Cover depicting plate 36 ("Tampoco") from Goya's series The Disasters of War, 1810–20
Susan Lee Sontag was an American writer and critic. She primarily wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp' ", in 1964. Her best-known wor
Regarding the Pain of Others
…Regarding the Pain of Others is a 2003 book-length essay by American writer Susan Sontag, which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. It was her last published book before her death in 2004. Sontag regarded the book as…
Photo portrait of Sontag, 1966
The cover of Against Interpretation (1966), which contains some of Sontag's best-known essays
The former Sarajevo newspaper building during the Siege of Sarajevo, when Sontag lived in the city
Susan Sontag in 1994, painted by Bolivian artist Juan Fernando Bastos