Against Interpretation

<p><b>A reissue of Susan Sontag’s classic first collection, featuring some of her most beloved writing</b><b>—</b><b>on art, life, camp, and criticism</b><b>—that cemented her legacy as one of the brightest thinkers of, and beyond, her generation.</b><br><br>Susan Sontag is widely regarded as one of the most formidable, original, and influential writers of the last century. <i>Against Interpretation</i> is a modern classic, her first-ever collection and the work that launched her storied career when it was published in 1966. It has influenced generations of readers, and still contains some of her best-known essays, including “Notes on Camp,” “Against Interpretation,” and a dazzling range of, well, interpretations. Grand in scope—ranging from philosophy to film to religion to psychoanalysis—and short in length, this pocket-sized, pithy, and profound book introduces “a larger-than-life intellectual powerhouse” (Leslie Jamison).</p>