<DIV>Andrew Holleran's <I>Ground Zero</I>, first published in 1988 and consisting of 23 <I>Christopher Street</I> essays from the earliest years of the AIDS crisis, was hailed by the <I>Washington Post</I> as “one of the best dispatches from the epidemic's height.” Twenty years later, with HIV/AIDS long recognized as a global health challenge, Holleran both reiterates and freshly illuminates the devastation wreaked by AIDS, which has claimed the lives of 450,000 gay men as well as 22 million others. <I>Chronicle of a Plague, Revisited</I> features ten pieces never previously republished outside <I>Christopher Street</I>, as well as a new introduction keenly describing and evaluating a historical moment that still informs and defines today's world-particularly its community of homosexuals, which, arguably, is still recovering from the devastation of AIDS.</Div>