Hanif Abdurraqib

A stunning homage to A Tribe Called Quest and a musical era that shaped American culture, from critically acclaimed Hanif Abdurraqib. How does one pay homage to A Tribe Called Quest? Hanif Abdurraqib digs into the group's history and draws from his... Lire la suite

2017 Eric Hoffer Book Award - Poetry Honorable Mention 2017 Eric Hoffer Book Award - Grand Prize Short List 2017 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nominee The Crown Ain't Worth Much, Hanif Abdurraqib's first full-length collection, is a sharp and... Lire la suite

Em Um pequeno demônio na América, o premiado poeta Hanif Abdurraqib reúne uma série de ensaios, entre a crônica cultural e a reflexão crítica, sobre a atuação negra e sua ressonância política e social em distintas manifestações artísticas, com... Lire la suite

A collection of the very first, the very last, and the very best interviews conducted with Prince over his nearly 40 year career. There is perhaps no musician who has had as much influence on the sound of contemporary American music than Prince. His... Lire la suite

**As featured on Barack Obama's Summer 2022 Reading List** Winner of the Gordon Burn Prize
Winner of the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
Finalist for the Pen... Lire la suite

This thirtieth-anniversary edition of June Jordan’s foundational poetry program guidebook features a foreword by Hanif Abdurraqib and a new preface from Samiya Bashir. If you want to know how to teach poetry—in a university, a high school, at a... Lire la suite

A must-read collection featuring the best in sports journalism
Editor Hanif Abdurraqib has curated an essential anthology showcasing incredible feats and diverse perspectives across the world of sports.
Selected from a wide range of... Lire la suite

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | A NEW YORK TIMES, TIME, GUARDIAN, WASHINGTON POST, NPR, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, KIRKUS and BOOKRIOT BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR CRITICISM
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
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An electrifying collection of essays from legendary cultural critic and Pulitzer Prize-winner Greg Tate ‘Easily one of the greatest wordsmiths … [and] the best American writer and thinker of the past forty years’ Washington Post From one of the most... Lire la suite

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... Lire la suite

Alla Marcia su Washington del 1963 Josephine Baker rifletté sulla sua carriera. Per decenni era stata tra gli artisti di maggior successo al mondo ma, come disse alla folla, «Negli altri Paesi ero considerata il diavolo, ed ero un piccolo diavolo... Lire la suite

A stunning collection of essays using music as a vantage point through which to examine and interrogate the world we live in, culturally and politically. In an age of confusion, fear, and loss, Hanif Abdurraqib's is a voice that matters. Whether he... Lire la suite

**"**Greg Tate was my first, and in some ways truest, North Star . . . Greg was the first person who validated the art that I loved and made it intellectually viable." —Questlove, from the foreword "T****he velocity and volume of his exuberance, his... Lire la suite

A young Aretha Franklin captivates her community with the song “Respect” during the height of the Civil Rights Movement, in this striking picture book biography that will embolden today’s young readers to sing their own truth. When Aretha Franklin... Lire la suite

In questi saggi scritti tra il 2016 e il 2017, periodo cruciale per la storia politica e culturale degli Stati Uniti, Hanif Abdurraqib utilizza la musica e la cultura popolare come lenti attraverso cui osservare il mondo e raccontarci qualcosa di sé... Lire la suite

“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 Review In his much... Lire la suite

Everyday Apocalypse recovers the root meaning of the term apocalypse (revelation) to use the concept as a lens through which art and other acts of creative nonviolence that often go unseen may be brought into focus. Interweaving an examination of... Lire la suite