Introduction: unextinguished: Susan Sontag's work in progress / Some notes on "Notes on camp" / Absolute seriousness: Susan Sontag in American popular culture / "Not even a New Yorker": Susan Sontag in America / Romances of community in Sontag's later fiction / Sontag, modernity, and cinema: women and an aesthetics of silence, 1960-1980 / Sontag on theater / The "counterculture" in quotation marks: Sontag and Marcuse on the work of revolution / A way of feeling is a way of seeing: Sontag and the visual arts / Metaphors kill: "Against interpretation" and the illness books / The posthumous life of Susan Sontag / In summa: the latter essays: an appreciation / Susan Sontag, cosmophage