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This enthralling group portrait brings to life a moment when popular culture became the site of religious strife--strife that set the stage for some of the most salient political and cultural clashes of our day

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Minor Black Figures " tells of a diverseFrom "literary superstar" (The Boston Globe) and Booker Prize finalist Brandon Taylor, his "most accomplished novel" (The New York Times): the story of a gay Black painter navigating the worlds of art, desire, and creativity New York simmers with heat and unrest as Wyeth, a painter, finds himself at an impasse in his own work. After attending a dubious show put on by a collective of careerist artists, he retreats to a bar in the West Village where he