I’ve read this slim volume about 4-5 times now, and each time I reread, there’s more here for me to think about. At the same time, I often forget much of its contents shortly after. It’s an interesting essay and argument style and I think it comes from Susan Sontag’s not being academic in approach. So there’s a wonderful connective musing quality here, that flits around a central thesis, without ever quite cementing things. I think this works wonderfully in terms of finding ways to […]
In June 1938 Virginia Woolf published Three Guineas, her brave, unwelcome reflections on the roots of war.
Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag