Andriote, John-Manuel, Victory Deferred, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Andriote offers a thorough and impassioned examination of the impact of AIDS on the image, culture, and politics of the gay community over the past two decades.

Lerner, Eric K., and Mary Ellen Hombs, AIDS Crisis in America, 2nd ed., Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, Inc., 1998.

A clear and comprehensive overview of the rise of AIDS and its effects. Includes demographics, basic medical information, public policy, as well as reference materials and glossary.

Poague, Leland, Conversations with Susan Sontag, Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1995.

This collection of twenty interviews with Sontag given between 1967 and 1993 offers insight into her views on arts and ideas, as well as some personal background.

Shilts, Randy, And the Band Played On: People, Politics, and the AIDS Epidemic, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987.

Chronicles the AIDS crisis from its very beginning. The book...