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Although several of these essays have been written in the last couple of years, many are reprinted from magazine articles and the book forms a thought-provoking collection rather than a selection of new writing. Given Sontag's outspoken views on the recent events in America and Afghanistan, it is rather frustrating that there isn't more of her political writing in this volume and it is hard to understand why certain "interludes" were chosen. But as always with Sontag, there is much for even the faint-hearted to savour and ponder. --Julie Wheelwright
"What ultimately matters about Sontag is what she has defended: the life of the mind, and the necessity for reading and writing as 'a way of being fully human.' She has been a great explainer, but her explanations are not reductive....She regroups the familiar and makes the eye fresh....She stands for what is articulate, independent, exploratory: for self as work in progress." --Hilary Mantel, Los Angeles Times Book Review
"[The essays] invariably also leave one with the urgent desire to read the book or see the painting, play, dance she describes. Her passion evokes that urgency...The outstanding essays are 'Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo' and 'Writing Itself: On Roland Barthes, ' both of which are definitive and awe-inspiring." --Bookforum
"Three essays--the longest in the book--are of unquestioned lasting importance. They are 'Writing Itself: On Roland Barthes, ' 'Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo' and the title essay ['Where the Stress Falls' which] is a stunning tour de force." --Houston Chronicle
"Where the Stress Falls raises the bar of criticism to the highest level....Her energy infuses every word in the collection." --The Seattle Times
"Her criticism is art in its own right, so gorgeously formed and creative, so vital and searching, deeply rooted in passionately intelligent reading and unstinting curiosity ....A substantial and wonderfully musical collection that makes matters literary and artistic urgent and thrilling." --Booklist
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