Publication
The short book was originally published as three long essays in the New York Review of Books (Donoghue, 1978). Some of the more inflammatory language was slightly toned down when it was published as a book. For example, what Sontag originally called the "inimitable looniness" of William Reich's language was softened to the "inimitable coherence" (Donoghue, 1978).
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