What to say about Susan Sontag? Nothing in particular -- if you can't say anything nice about the dead... There are plenty of tributes -- like James Wolcott's, using the same horrific writerly language. And there are attacks -- see, for example, Tim Blair.
Being human, I'm tempted (I've always been tempted) to go postal on "On Photography" (every working photographer I know goes postal on "On Photography"), or to talk about the September 11 comments (observations on courage, informed by fashionable left-ism and untroubled by facts or knowledge), or to say something obvious about "Illness as Metaphor" (for example -- yes, but first of all, it's illness). But I won't. All I'll say is that for me, Susan Sontag will always be the person who thought that what the people of Sarajevo really, really needed, in the extremity of their suffering, was not food, not medicine, not shelter, but a production of Waiting for Godot.
Requiescat in Pacem.
UPDATE: Christopher Hitchens has positive things to say that are actually worth reading. I don't agree with him in this particular case, but when Hitchens talks, I do at least listen.
AND STILL MORE: Here.
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