Where the Stress Falls, published in 2001, is the last collection of essays published by Susan Sontag before her death in 2004. The essays vary between her experiences in the theater to book reviews.
Cover of the first edition
Susan Lee Sontag was an American writer, critic, and public intellectual. She mostly wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp' ", in 1964. Her best-known works include the critical works Against Interpretation (1966), On Photography (1977), Illness as Metaphor (1978) and Regarding the Pain of Others, as well as the fictional works The Way We Live Now (1986), The Volcano Lover (1992), and In America (1999).
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