As You’d Been Wont-Wantonly, Wantonly, Eros Past

Lift-ground etching

‘The Way We Live Now’ was first published as a short story written by Susan Sontag in the New Yorker in 1986.
It concerns the responses – doubting, possessive, comic – of a group of New Yorkers when they discover a close friend has Aids. Now Howard Hodgkin has created a series of hand-coloured engravings to go alongside the book.
See also, But He Did Stop Smoking, He Didn’t Miss Cigarettes at All, The Hospital Room was Choked With Flowers, Everybody Likes Flowers, Surplus Flowers, the Room was Filling up with Flowers, In Touch, Checking In, Fear Gives Everything Its Hue, its High