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“The Peaks Are Known Quantities”: Hanif Abdurraqib and There’s Always This Year
As you move through the quarters that divide There’s Always This Year, timestamps appear like the ticking clock of the scoreboard. 12:00. 8:32. 6:00. 3:42. 0:03. The times don’t appear equidistantly, there is no clear mathematical division happening between text and time. They appear when you least, or sometimes most,…
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McKinley Dixon Loves Pop Punk
Go Ahead in the Rain, by Hanif Abdurraqib, is the first book I ever loved. Having forgone reading outside mandatory contexts, Go Ahead reminded me reading could be beautiful. It intricately knits personal, historical, and even poetic and spiritual narratives together to surround A Tribe Called Quest, presenting them in…
