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A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib
Category: History
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - A sweeping, genre-bending "masterpiece" (Minneapolis Star Tribune) exploring Black art, music, and culture in all their glory and complexity - from Soul Train, Aretha Franklin, and James Brown to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Whitney Houston, and Beyoncé . ONE OF THE TEN B ...Show more
A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib
Category: Music
An electrifying celebration of Black performances, cultures and communities in the United States, from the New York Times bestselling poet and critic Hanif Abdurraqib 'Gorgeous' - Brit Bennett 'Pure genius' - Jacqueline Woodson 'One of the most dynamic books I have ever read' - Clint Smith At the March ...Show more
Fortune for Your Disaster by Hanif Abdurraqib
Category: Poetry
"When an author's unmitigated brilliance shows up on every page, it's tempting to skip a description and just say, Read this Such is the case with this breathlessly powerful, deceptively breezy book of poetry." --Booklist, Starred ReviewIn his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, po ...Show more
Go Ahead In The Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest by Abdurraqib Hanif
Category: Film & Tv
How does one pay homage to A Tribe Called Quest? The seminal rap group brought jazz into the genre to create masterpieces such as The Low End Theory and Midnight Marauders. Seventeen years after their last album, they resurrected themselves with an intense, socially conscious record, We Got It from Here ...Show more
Go Ahead in the Rain - Notes to a Tribe Called Quest by Hanif Abdurraqib
Category: Music
How does one pay homage to A Tribe Called Quest? The seminal rap group brought jazz into the genre, resurrecting timeless rhythms to create masterpieces such as The Low End Theory and Midnight Marauders. Seventeen years after their last album, they resurrected themselves with an intense, socially consci ...Show more
Motherfield - Poems and Belarusian Protest Diary by Julia Cimafiejeva; Hanif Abdurraqib (Translator); Valzhyna Mort (Translator)
Category: Poetry
A poetry collection where personal is inevitably political and ecological, Motherfield is a poet's insistence on self-determination in authoritarian, patriarchal Belarus. Julia Cimafiejeva was born in an area of rural Belarus that became a Chernobyl zone when she was a child. The book opens with a poet' ...Show more
Respect the Mic - Celebrating 20 Years of Poetry from a Chicagoland High School by Peter Kahn (Editor); Hanif Abdurraqib (Editor); Dan "Sully" Sullivan (Editor); Franny Choi (Editor); Tyehimba Jess (Foreword by)
Category: Children's
An expansive, moving poetry anthology, representing 20 years of poetry from students and alumni of Chicago's Oak Park River Forest High School Spoken Word Club. Poets I know sometimes joke that the poetry club at Oak Park River Forest High School is the best MFA program in the Chicagoland area. Like ...Show more
The White Stripes Complete Lyrics by Jack White; Hanif Abdurraqib (Introduction by); Ben Blackwell (Introduction by)
Category: Rock & Roll
The White Stripes Complete Lyrics is a deluxe new 300+ page hardbound book documenting all of Jack White's original words written for the 6x Grammy Award-winning duo he and Meg White formed in 1997 through the release of their final album in 2007. The first-time-ever lyric collection also features never ...Show more
There's Always This Year - On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib
Category: Sports and Hobbies
A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, life, and home--from the author of the National Book Award finalist A Little Devil in America "Mesmerizing . . . not only the most original sports book I've ever read but one of the most moving books I've ever read, period."--Steve James, director of Ho ...Show more
There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib
Category: Sports and Hobbies
A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and the meaning of success Growing up in Columbus, Ohio, in the 1990s, Hanif Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of basketball, one in which legends like LeBron James were forged and countless others weren't. His lifelong love of the game leads Abdurra ...Show more
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib
Category: Film & Tv
Abdurraqib uses music and culture as a lens through which to view our world, so that we might better understand ourselves, and in so doing proves himself a bellwether for our times.
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Abdurraqib Hanif
Category: Philosophy and Religion
In a collection of essays published by the New York Times, MTV, and Pitchfork, among others - along with original, previously unreleased essays ' Hanif Abdurraqib explores the political, social, racial condition of our world today through the language of music and culture. From discussions over public d ...Show more
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