Andrew Holleran’sGround Zero, first published in 1988 and consisting of 23Christopher Streetessays from the earliest years of the AIDS crisis, was hailed by theWashington Postas “one of the best dispatches from the epidemic’s height.” Twentyyears later, with HIV/AIDS long recognized as a global health challenge,Holleran both reiterates and freshly illuminates the devastationwreaked by AIDS, which has claimed the lives of 450,000 gay men as wellas 22 million others.Chronicle of a Plague, Revisitedfeatures ten pieces never previously republished outsideChristopher Street,as well as a new introduction keenly describing and evaluating ahistorical moment that still informs and defines today’sworld-particularly its community of homosexuals, which, arguably, isstill recovering from the devastation of AIDS.