Nonfiction Review: Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag

February 13, 2026

What do you see beyond the viewfinder? Death, apparently.

It’s almost complete coincidence I picked this nonfiction. I was just done reading Watanare, which is a fiction, so I picked nonfiction next, and my eyes just went to this book, and I was like, hey. Why not? I don’t know the synopsis or tags or whatever the book is about, beyond the author and the title.

It’s certainly heavier read than Watanare. What is it about? Well, it’s about photography, and death. Specifically: war.