num_pages: 351
description: Thirty-five years after her first collection, the now classic Against Interpretation, America's most important essayist has chosen more than forty longer and shorter pieces from the last twenty years. Divided into three sections, the first "Reading" includes ardent pieces on writers from her own private canon - Machado de Assis, Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Borges, Tsvetaeva, and Elizabeth Hardwick. In the second, "Seeing" she shares her passions for film, dance, photography, painting, opera, and theater. And in the final section, "There and Here" Sontag explores her own commitments to the work (and activism) of conscience and to the vocation of the writer.
language: English
title: Where the Stress Falls: Essays
titlecomplete: Where the Stress Falls: Essays
genres: Theory, Writing, American, Philosophy, Nonfiction, Essays, Art, Criticism, Unfinished, Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 490
publisher: Picador