Magnificent. Her famous seriousness pervades throughout. What's striking is the astonishing scope, potential, and possibility Sontag saw in short fiction. The complete collected short stories of Susan Sontag, one of the most brilliant and influential writers of the twentieth century. Susan Sontag is most often remembered as a brilliant essayist— inquisitive, analytical, and fearlessly outspoken. Yet all throughout her life, she also wrote short stories: fictions that wrestled with those ideas and preoccupations she couldn't address in essay form. These short fictions are allegories, parables, and autobiographical vignettes, each capturing an authentic fragment of life and dramatizing Sontag's private griefs and fears. Stories collects all of Sontag's short fiction for the first time. This astonishingly versatile collection showcases its peerless writer at the height of her power.