"Where the Stress Falls" records a great American writer's urgent engagement with some of the most significant aesthetic and moral issues of the late twentieth century, and provides a brilliant and clear-eyed appraisal of what is at stake, in this new century, in the survival of that inheritance. Divided in to three sections, 'Reading', 'Seeing' and 'There and Here' Sontag explores her own commitments to the work (and activism) of conscience and to the vocation of the writer in this collection of forty essays.