There's Always This Year - On Basketball and Ascension

There’s Always This Year is a triumph from one of America’s most celebrated and insightful critics, poets and authors. It brims with joy, pain, solidarity, comfort, outrage, and hope. No matter the subject, Abdurraqib’s exquisite writing is always poetry, always profound, and always a clarion call to radically reimagine how we think about our culture, and ourselves.<>

About the author

Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His first full length poetry collection, The Crown Ain't Worth Much, was named a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Prize, and was nominated for a Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. His first collection of essays, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us, was named a book of the year by BuzzFeed, Esquire, NPR, O: The Oprah Magazine, Paste, CBC, The Los Angeles Review, Pitchfork, and Chicago Tribune, among others. His most recent book, A Little Devil In America, was the winner of the 2021 Gordon Burn Prize and the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.

Product details

• Authors: Hanif Abdurraqib
• Publisher: Allen Lane
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.03.2024
• EAN: 9780241697153
• ISBN: 978-0-241-69715-3
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 222 mm x 40 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Guides > Sport; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre > Miscellaneous; USA, Basketball, Sociology, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports, Memoirs, United States of America, USA