- New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977. ISBN 0-374-22626-1.
- London: Allan Lane, 1978. ISBN 0-7139-1128-X.
- New York: Anchor Books, 1990. ISBN 0-385-26706-1.
- New York: Picador, 2001 ISBN 978-0312420093.
- Reprinted in Sontag: Essays of the 1960s & 1970s, Library of America, 2013. ISBN 978-1-59853-255-5. Includes endnotes.
Earlier versions of these essays appeared in The New York Review of Books:
- Volume 20, No. 16 (October 18, 1973).
- Volume 20, No. 18 (November 15, 1973).
- Volume 21, No. 6 (April 18, 1974).
- Volume 21, No. 19 (November 28, 1974).
- Volume 23, No. 21 & 22 (January 20, 1977).
- Volume 24, No. 11 (June 23, 1977).