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Selected Essays | Merve Emre & Tobi Haslett on Susan Sontag (Bonus Episode!)

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Hardwick's Sleepless Nights

Toby Hardwick: "My favorite parts of sleepless nights are not just where the poor are these kind of passive objects of a kind of patrician sympathy" He says she's actually staging a confrontation between her sensibility and people who, again, belong to a political tendency that she will famously disavow. The irony only acquires real sharpness because it's measured against the authenticity of a genuine, proletarian life, he says.

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