This is Susan Sontag’s long interview some close years after being diagnosed with cancer in the mid-1970s. The result of this diagnosis is the long essay “Illness as Metaphor” which dissects the concept of deeper interpretation and hidden meaning in illness, especially focusing on tuberculosis and cancer. This book came out before the AIDS epidemic and so feel lacking in that sense, but was later expanded and combined with writing about AIDS, something she spends time in her fiction with as well. The interviewer here […]