You should go read this one. For one, it’s a really satisfying set of cultural essays written with the mindset and language of a well-informed poet. It’s also a perfect execution in observation and scope. Abdurraqib knows what he’s talking about. I mean that in non-colloquial ways. His perspective from which these essays are written are so interconnected with their topics and his sense of scale and scope are generally perfectly in tune. He doesn’t speak beyond his knowledge, he doesn’t speak for anyone besides […]