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Daryl Sng
@darylsng.com

A really good piece. Peter Hujar is mentioned a few times & I’d add that the cover of Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life is Hujar’s “Orgasmic Man”. One piece of art about the AIDS crisis that Harris doesn’t mention is the magnificent “It’s a Sin”, which for me is among the best TV of this century

Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.social

There's been a surge of popular art about the first years of the AIDS crisis. In this new essay, I try to honor and explore a charged moment in which custody of that art-making is shared by people who lived through those dark years and people who didn't. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/19/t...

nytimes.comWhat Can We See in All the Recent Art About AIDS? (Gift Article)Nearly five decades after the disease first appeared, many filmmakers, writers and others are finding new meaning in catastrophe.

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Daryl Sng
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I think the UK perspective is really interesting for where it’s similar (families shunning) and where it’s different (Section 28 and the like). I was glad you mentioned Rebecca Makkai’s The Great Believers, picked it up after finishing I Have Some Questions For You and wasn’t expecting what I read