Tom Crewe, 27 September 2018
How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed Aids by David France.
Picador, 624 pp., £12.99, September 2017, 978 1 5098 3940 7Show More Patient Zero and the Making of the Aids Epidemic by Richard A. McKay.
Chicago, 432 pp., £26.50, November 2017, 978 0 226 06395 9Show More Modern Nature: The Journals of Derek Jarman, 1989-90 by Derek Jarman.
Vintage, 314 pp., £9.99, May 2018, 978 1 78487 387 5Show More Smiling in Slow Motion: The Journals of Derek Jarman, 1991-94 by Derek Jarman.
Vintage, 388 pp., £9.99, August 2018, 978 1 78487 516 9Show More The Ward by Gideon Mendel.
Trolley, 88 pp., £25, December 2017, 978 1 907112 56 0Show More Show More“... Jarman made a note in his diary in April 1989: ‘Since autumn: Terry, Robert, David, Ken, Paul, Howard. All the brightest and best trampled to death – surely even the Great War brought no more loss into one life in just 12 months, and all this as we made love not war.’ In March 1992: ‘We talked of the people who died of Aids this week.’ ‘To say ...”