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An unprecedented collection of the controversial later writings of the greatest and most provocative critic of our time.

About the Author

David Rieff is the author of Swimming in a Sea of Death- A Son's Memoir and editor of the journals and notebooks of Susan Sontag, of which two volumes have appeared to date, and of the Library of America companion volume Susan Sontag- Essays of the 1960s & 70s. His many other books include At the Point of a Gun- Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention, A Bed for the Night- Humanitarianism in Crisis, The Reproach of Hunger- Food, Justice, and Money in the Twenty-First Century, and In Praise of Forgetting- Historical Memory and Its Ironies.