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Susan Sontag Books in Order

Susan Sontag (1933–2004) was an American writer whose work ranged across literary and cultural criticism, photography, politics, fiction, theater, film, and personal journals. She published four novels, collections of essays and short stories, plays, screenplays, and memoir-like journals. Her major works include Against Interpretation, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, The Volcano Lover, and In America.

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Susan Sontag's Newest Book

On Women

essay-collection · First published 2023

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Against Interpretation and Other Essays

The foundational essay collection that established Sontag as a major cultural critic.

On Photography

Her most influential sustained study of photography, images, and modern spectatorship.

The Volcano Lover

An accessible entry into her historical fiction and preoccupation with art, desire, and collecting.

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Journals and Notebooks

Posthumously edited selections from Susan Sontag's journals and notebooks, arranged chronologically.

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1

Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947–1963
Book 1 · memoir · 2008

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2

As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964–1980
Book 2 · memoir · 2012

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