Article: Halfway to a keen analysis of AIDS and our culture

AIDS and Its Metaphors By Susan Sontag. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $14.95.

AIDS and Its Metaphors is half of a good book. Its pages contain some of the most insightful passages yet written about this culture's interpretation of the AIDS epidemic. Yet, these moments of excellence leave the reader yearning for a full analysis, and it's not forthcoming.

Susan Sontag clearly has the intellectual wherewithal to mine the rich vein of metaphor that has crystallized around this frightening disease. What is amazing is that this disease has yet to engender much in the way of piercing discourse from the

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