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Author Isaac Butler in Conversation with Brian Herrera
Cultural historian and author Isaac Butler presents his new book, "The Perfect Moment: God, Sex, Art, and the Birth of America's Culture Wars," a New Yorker Best Book of 2026 So Far. Butler is joined in conversation by Associate Professor of Theater Brian Herrera, whose academic and artistic work examines the history of gender, sexuality and race within and through U.S. popular performance. Presented by the library's Public Humanities Initiative, in partnership with the Lewis Center for the Arts and the Effron Center for the Study of America at Princeton University.
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