Volume 48, Number 10 · June 21, 2001
In Jerusalem
By Susan Sontag
The writer's first job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth...and refuse to be an accomplice of lies or misinformation. Literature is the expression of nuance and contrariness against the voices of simplification. The job of the writer is to make it harder to believe the mental despoilers. The job of the writer is to help make us see the world as it is, which is to say, full of many different claims and parts and experiences.
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