Sarah Schulman Discusses Her Massive ACT UP Tome ‘Let the Record Show,’ Coming This May
Book design by No Ideas; portrait by Drew Stevens
It’s fascinating to watch how traumatic and fraught events get historicized, isn’t it? Think the Holocaust. Think the Vietnam War. And think the U.S. 1980s and ’90s AIDS crisis and the furious activism that rose up to meet it. Only in the past decade have we started seeing major nonfiction works of film or publishing take on that seismic era (which, we should point out, is not over). First, we had David France’s Oscar-nominated 2012 documentary