Jim Brown reviewed There's Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib
Read anything this man writes
There's not a better writer working today. I always roll me eyes when people talk about savoring a book, about not rushing through it. But that's how I feel about anything Abdurraqib writes.
This book is about basketball, but it's also not. It's vulnerable, cutting, incisive, beautiful. Read it, and then read everything else he's written: Go Ahead in the Rain (a book about Tribe Called Quest), Little Devil in America, They Can't Kill Us 'Till they Kill Us, The Crown Ain't Worth Much. All of it.
There's not a better writer working today. I always roll me eyes when people talk about savoring a book, about not rushing through it. But that's how I feel about anything Abdurraqib writes.
This book is about basketball, but it's also not. It's vulnerable, cutting, incisive, beautiful. Read it, and then read everything else he's written: Go Ahead in the Rain (a book about Tribe Called Quest), Little Devil in America, They Can't Kill Us 'Till they Kill Us, The Crown Ain't Worth Much. All of it.