RaveThe Irish Times (IRE)Searingly intelligent ... Taylor deftly articulates the tension between integrity and self-commodification ... With his sensuous, almost tactile prose, Taylor makes the strictly technical exciting ... The leap Taylor makes in Minor Black Figures – from utterly disenchanted to tentatively hopeful – is patiently and elegantly earned, culminating in its passages on what is to be found in being in the world, in having skin in the game: dignity, and grace.