Sontag’s legacy of brave thinking

AT THE SAME TIME, By Susan Sontag, Farrar Straus Giroux, €25.

The death in December 2004 of Susan Sontag, one of the world’s most consistently wise, original and provocative thinkers, was a massive loss to the literary and political community.

Before cancer seized her at the age of 71, Sontag - the writer of works such as Regarding the Pain of Others and the brilliant On Photography - had made plans for several ...