To have access to literature, world literature, was to escape the prison of national vanity, of philistinism, of compulsory provincialism, of inane schooling, of imperfect destinies and bad luck. Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; th

BY Susan Sontag 27 October 2003

I do not question that we have a vicious, abhorrent enemy that opposes most of what I cherish ... What I do question is the pseudo-declaration of pseudo-war.

BY Susan Sontag 16 October 2002