ARGONAUT BOOKS

'At the Same Time' gathers 16 essays and addresses written in the last years of Susan Sontag's life, which reflect on the personally liberating nature of literature, and on political activism as an ethical duty, and fearlessly address the dilemmas of post-9/11 America. Reviews At the time [Sontag] died, she was America's best-known public intellectual. To my mind, she was also the most exemplary. Intellectually and imaginatively gifted to an extraordinary degree, she used her fearless intelligence to illuminate some of the deepest contradictions of contemporary lifeNew State...Read More