Hanif Abdurraqib, author portrait
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Hanif Abdurraqib

Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. He is a recipient of the MacArthur Foundation “Genius” grant and the author of There's Always This Year, a New York Times bestseller and winner of the National Books Critics Circle Award; A Little Devil in America, winner of the Carnegie Medal and a National Book Award finalist; The Crown Ain't Worth Much; They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us; Go Ahead in the Rain; and A Fortune for Your Disaster, winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. He is a graduate of Beechcroft High School.
There's Always This Year
A Little Devil in America

Books

There's Always This Year
A Little Devil in America

FROM THE PAGE: Read an excerpt from Damon Young’s That’s How They Get You

From the Thurber Prize-winning author of What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker comes a pioneering collection of Black humor from some of the most acclaimed writers and performers at work today. Read an excerpt written by Hanif Abdurraqib, author of There’s Always This Year and A Little Devil in America.   No One Makes “Yo Mama”

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FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Hanif Abdurraqib’s There’s Always This Year

A “powerful” (The Guardian) reflection on basketball, life, and home—from the author of the National Book Award finalist A Little Devil in America.   Longlisted for the National Book Award Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award   5:00 You will surely forgive me if I begin

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