Refusing to Look Away

Published May 12, 2004

Regarding the Pain of Others

By Susan Sontag

Picador

131 pp., $16.

This is a slender but potent offering from U.S. essayist, novelist, and public intellectual Susan Sontag. As viewers around the world struggle to form an adequate response to this month's succession of disturbing and violent images of the ritualized humiliation of Iraqi prisoners of war, the power of photography...