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There’s Always This Year

Hanif Abdurraqib’s captivating There’s Always This Year is a powerful meditation on place and community.

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Review of ‘There’s Always This Year’

MacArthur fellow and National Book Award finalist Hanif Abdurraqib is a prolific poet and author, writing across genres of poetry, essay and cultural criticism to great acclaim. Abdurraqib turns his sensitive lens towards basketball in his newest work, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension. With carefully constructed and imaginative prose, he immerses us…

Interview with Hanif Abdurraqib

The A Little Devil in America author turns his singular pen to basketball—and how the sport illustrates our struggles and strivings.

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