Sontag's first posthumously published book, it was edited by her friend Paolo Dilonardo and her assistant Anne Jump and features a foreword by her son David Rieff.

Publishers Weekly wrote, "Sontag's brilliance as a literary critic, her keen analytical skill and her genius for the searingly apt phrase... are all fiercely displayed here.

"[3] The Daily Telegraph wrote, "At the Same Time reads like a greatest-hits album - a little politics, something on photography, some lit crit - of the range of her commitments and passions.

[6] Further research led Lavagnino to identify several passages that appeared to have been taken without attribution from an essay on hypertext fiction by Laura Miller, originally published in The New York Times Book Review six years earlier.

[7] Writing for The Observer, Michael Calderone interviewed Sontag's publisher about the allegations, who said that "This was a speech, not a formal essay" and that "Susan herself never prepared it for publication.